Stable introduction of a life-shortening Wolbachia infection into the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5910, 2009, Pages 141-144

  McMeniman, Conor J ^a   Lane, Roxanna V ^a   Cass, Bodil N ^a   Fong, Amy W C ^a   Sidhu, Manpreet ^a   Wang, Yu Feng ^a,b   O'Neill, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BACTERIUM; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DENGUE FEVER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENOME; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; SYMBIONT; VIRUS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DENGUE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BLOOD; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LONGEVITY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TEMPERATURE; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DENGUE VIRUS GROUP; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 58149264955     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1165326     Document Type: Article

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