Control of introduced species using Trojan sex chromosomes

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 441-443

  Cotton, Samuel ^a   Wedekind, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME; EXTINCTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; WEED CONTROL;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CICHLID; FEMALE; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; METHODOLOGY; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX RATIO; SHORT SURVEY;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; FEMALE; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX RATIO;

EID: 34547678134     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2007.06.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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