Prevalence and penetrance variation of male-killing Wolbachia across Indo-Pacific populations of the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3525-3530

  Charlat, Sylvain ^a,b   Hornett, Emily A ^a   Dyson, Emily A ^a   Ho, Patrick P Y ^a   Loc, Nguyen Thi ^c   Schilthuizen, Menno ^d   Davies, Neil ^b   Roderick, George K ^b   Hurst, Gregory D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Cuu Long Delta Rice Research Institute   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Evolution; Male killing; Penetrance; Prevalence; Selfish genetic elements; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA; WOLBACHIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BUTTERFLIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; PACIFIC ISLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33644875665     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02678.x     Document Type: Article

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