In vitro cultivation of parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia in an Aedes albopictus cell line

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-87

  Kubota, Masako ^a   Morii, Tomohiro ^a   Miura, Kazuki ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR WESTERN REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological control; Cell culture; Culicidae; Diptera; Hymenoptera; Microinjection; NIAS AeA1 2 cells; Trichogramma kaykai; Trichogrammatidae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOSQUITO; PARASITOID; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WASP;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA KAYKAI; TRICHOGRAMMATIDAE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33745278552     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2005.00335.x     Document Type: Article

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