Unexpected mechanism of symbiont-induced reversal of insect sex: Feminizing Wolbachia continuously acts on the butterfly Eurema hecabe during larval development

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4332-4341

  Narita, Satoko ^a   Kageyama, Daisuke ^b   Nomura, Masashi ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUPAL MORTALITY; SYMBIONT INFECTION;

ANTIBIOTICS; GENE EXPRESSION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; BUTTERFLY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMINIZATION; GENOTYPE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BUTTERFLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUREMA HECABE; FEMININITY; FORELIMB; GENDER; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOTYPE; HERMAPHRODITISM; HOST; INSECT; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PUPATION; REPRODUCTION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SYMBIONT; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRUSTACEA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; HERMAPHRODITISM; INSECTS; LARVA; MALE; MOSAICISM; MOTHS; PHENOTYPE; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SYMBIOSIS; WING; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUREMA HECABE; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 34447550845     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00145-07     Document Type: Article

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