Modes of acquisition of Wolbachia: Horizontal transfer, hybrid introgression, and codivergence in the Nasonia species complex

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 165-183

  Raychoudhury, Rhitoban ^a   Baldo, Laura ^b   Oliveira, Deodoro C S G ^a,c   Werren, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Divergence time; Hybridization; Multilocus; Sequence typing; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; DIVERGENCE; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; WASP; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; WASPS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; NASONIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 58249096082     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2008.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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