Wolbachia as populations within individual insects: Causes and consequences of density variation in natural populations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1668, 2009, Pages 2805-2811

  Unckless, Robert L ^a   Boelio, Lisa M ^a   Herren, Jeremy K ^a   Jaenike, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection prevalence; Lognormal distribution; Male killing; qPCR; Transmission fidelity

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; FITNESS; FLY; LABORATORY METHOD; MALE-KILLING; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WILD POPULATION;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DENSITY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA INNUBILA; FEMALE; HOST; INSECT; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MOTHER; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; UNITED STATES; WOLBACHIA;

ARIZONA; CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

DROSOPHILA INNUBILA; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 67650888646     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0287     Document Type: Article

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