Feminization and the collapse of haplodiploidy in an asexual parasitoid wasp harboring the bacterial symbiont Cardinium

Heredity

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 365-371

  Giorgini, M ^a,b   Monti, M M ^a   Caprio, E ^b   Stouthamer, R ^c   Hunter, M S ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE PLANT PROTECTION   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diploid males; Feminization; Hymenoptera; Parthenogenesis; Sex determination; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMINIZATION; FERTILITY; PARASITOID; PARTHENOGENESIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SYMBIONT; WASP;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; CHALCIDOIDEA; ENCARSIA HISPIDA; HYMENOPTERA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 63149149375     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2008.135     Document Type: Article

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