Microbial genotype and insect fitness in an aphidbacterial symbiosis

Functional Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 598-604

  Birkle, L M ^a   Minto, L B ^a   Walters, K F A ^b   Douglas, A E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Buchnera; Gene amplification

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GENOTYPE; NUTRITION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON; ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INSECTA; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM; VICIA; VICIA FABA;

EID: 4043075585     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0269-8463.2004.00871.x     Document Type: Article

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