Removing endosymbiotic Wolbachia specifically decreases lifespan of females and competitiveness in a laboratory strain of Drosophila melanogaster

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1147-1152

  Alexandrov, I D ^a,b   Alexandrova, M V ^a,b   Goryacheva, I I ^a   Rochina, N V ^c   Shaikevich, E V ^a   Zakharov, I A ^a  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 35348935516     PISSN: 10227954     EISSN: 16083369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1022795407100080     Document Type: Article

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