Nonadditive genetic components in resistance of the red flour beetle Tribolium castanaeum against parasite infection

Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2381-2392

  Wegner, K Mathias ^a   Berenos, Camillo ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Epistasis; Fitness landscape; Genetic architecture; Host parasite coevolution; Microsporidian; Nosema whitei

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COEVOLUTION; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; FUNGUS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE RESISTANCE; RECOMBINATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGY; NOSEMA; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; NOSEMA; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPORES, FUNGAL; TRIBOLIUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLEOPTERA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA WHITEI; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 51249119225     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00444.x     Document Type: Article

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