Spiroplasma infection causes either early or late male killing in Drosophila, depending on maternal host age

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 333-337

  Kageyama, Daisuke ^a,b   Anbutsu, Hisashi ^b   Shimada, Masakazu ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Male killing; Spiroplasma

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FLY; MALE-KILLING; MATERNAL EFFECT; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOREGULATION; LARVA; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DENSITY; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); SPIROPLASMA; SYMBIONT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPIROPLASMA;

HEXAPODA; SPIROPLASMA;

EID: 33947420156     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0195-x     Document Type: Article

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