From parasite to mutualist: Rapid evolution of Wolbachia in natural populations of Drosophila

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 0997-1005

  Weeks, Andrew R ^a   Turelli, Michael ^b   Harcombe, William R ^c   Reynolds, K Tracy ^a   Hoffmann, Ary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPECIES INVASION; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; CYTOPLASM; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; WOLBACHIA;

TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALIFORNIA; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TETRACYCLINE; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 34249095423     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050114     Document Type: Article

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