Elimination of a specialised facultative symbiont does not affect the reproductive mode of its aphid host

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 296-301

  Simon, J C ^a,c   Sakurai, M ^b   Bonhomme, J ^a   Tsuchida, T ^b   Koga, R ^b   Fukatsu, T ^b  

^a AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

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

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Aphids; Fitness; Parthenogenesis; Rickettsia; Secondary symbiont; Sexual induction

Indexed keywords

APHID; ENDOSYMBIONT; FITNESS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; PARTHENOGENESIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; PISUM SATIVUM; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 34249776941     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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