First detection of Wolbachia in arrhenotokous populations of thrips species (Thysanoptera: Thripidae and Phlaeothripidae) and its role in reproduction

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1422-1428

  Kumm, Sandra ^a   Moritz, Gerald ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhenotoky; Haplodiploidy; Thelytoky; Thysanoptera; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DNA; GENE; MITE; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEAT; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; INSECTS; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHINOTHRIPS AMERICANUS; FRANKLINIELLA OCCIDENTALIS; GYNAIKOTHRIPS FICORUM; HERCINOTHRIPS FEMORALIS; HEXAPODA; PARTHENOTHRIPS DRACAENAE; PHLAEOTHRIPIDAE; THRIPIDAE; THRIPS TABACI; THYSANOPTERA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 58149213759     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-37.6.1422     Document Type: Article

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