Evolutionary history of a mosquito endosymbiont revealed through mitochondrial hitchhiking

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1594, 2006, Pages 1603-1611

  Rasgon, Jason L ^a,b   Cornel, Anthony J ^c   Scott, Thomas W ^c  

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

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens; Genetic hitchhiking; Mitochondria; Species complex; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLOZYME; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; HISTORY; HYBRID; INTROGRESSION; MATERNAL EFFECT; MITOCHONDRION; MOSQUITO; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES COMPLEX;

ALLOENZYME VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CULEX PIPIENS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTROGRESSION; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CULEX; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

CULEX PIPIENS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS); WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33747166470     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3493     Document Type: Article

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