Competing Selfish Genetic Elements in the Butterfly Hypolimnas bolina

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 2453-2458

  Charlat, Sylvain ^a,b   Engelstädter, Jan ^a   Dyson, Emily A ^a   Hornett, Emily A ^a   Duplouy, Anne ^b,c   Tortosa, Pablo ^b   Davies, Neil ^b   Roderick, George K ^b   Wedell, Nina ^d   Hurst, Gregory D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 33845380516     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.10.062     Document Type: Article

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