Potential sexual transmission of environmental microbes in a traumatically inseminating insect

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 607-611

  Reinhardt, Klaus ^a   Naylor, Richard A ^a   Siva Jothy, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Extragenital copulation; Genitalia; Heteroptera; Sexual conflict; Sexually transmitted disease; Wounding; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

HOST; INSECT; MATING BEHAVIOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MORTALITY; PATHOGEN;

ARTHROBACTER; CIMEX; CIMEX LECTULARIUS; CIMICIDAE; ENTEROBACTER; INSECTA; MICROCOCCUS; PENICILLIUM; SCOPULARIOPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS;

EID: 33745202244     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0307-6946.2005.00730.x     Document Type: Article

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