What use are male hosts? The dynamics of maternally inherited bacteria showing sexual transmission or male killing

American Naturalist

Volumn 173, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Engelstädter, Jan ^a,b,c   Hurst, Gregory D D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model; Reproductive parasite; Secondary symbiont; Sexually transmitted disease; Symbiosis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MALE BEHAVIOR; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MUTUALISM; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 67650254786     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/597375     Document Type: Article

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