Male-killing Wolbachia in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-64

  Mitsuhashi, Wataru ^a   Fukuda, Haruo ^b,c   Nicho, Kazunari ^b,c   Murakami, Ritsuko ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b Kagoshima Prefectural Institute of Environmental Research and Public Health   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; ftsZ gene; groE operon; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Sex ratio distortion; Symbiosis; Tetracycline; wsp gene

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BUTTERFLY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX RATIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYTISUS FONTANESII; HYPOLIMNAS BOLINA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; NYMPHALIDAE; PAPILIONOIDEA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 3543098724     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-8703.2004.00179.x     Document Type: Article

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