Interspecific transfer of Wolbachia into the mosquito disease vector Aedes albopictus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1592, 2006, Pages 1317-1322

  Xi, Zhiyong ^a,b   Khoo, Cynthia C H ^a   Dobson, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes albopictus; Cytoplasmic incompatibility; Drosophila; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

TETRACYCLINE;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DISEASE VECTOR; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; FLY; MOSQUITO; STERILITY;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DISEASE CARRIER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; MICROINJECTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WOLBACHIA; AEDES; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RICKETTSIOSIS;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; OOCYTES; POPULATION CONTROL; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTIONS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33746198090     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3405     Document Type: Article

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