Variable fitness effects of Wolbachia infection in Drosophila melanogaster

Heredity

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 379-389

  Fry, A J ^a,b   Palmer, M R ^a   Rand, D M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Fecundity; Mutualism; Parasitism; Survival; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIOSIS; TETRACYCLINE RESISTANCE; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DIPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MELANOGASTER; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

EID: 4944227710     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800514     Document Type: Article

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