Infection by Wolbachia: from passengers to residents

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 332, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 284-297

  Merçot, Hervé ^a   Poinsot, Denis ^b  

^a CNRS Université Paris 6 ^*  (France)

^b AGROCAMPUS OUEST   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mutualism; Sexual parasitism; Symbiosis; Vertical transmission; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; CYTOPLASM; EVOLUTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NEMATODE; PARASITISM; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROPOD; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; FILARIA; HOST RESISTANCE; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTION; TRAVEL; WOLBACHIA;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 61549097220     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2008.09.010     Document Type: Short Survey

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