Sick of mating sexual transmission of a pathogenic bacterium in drosophila melanogaster

Fly

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-219

  Miest, Tanner S ^a,b   Bloch Qazi, Margaret C ^a  

^a GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of mating; Drosophila; Entomopathogenic bacterium; Infection; Serratia marcescens; Sexually transmitted disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; SERRATIA INFECTION; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; MALE; SERRATIA INFECTIONS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 70149120246     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.6726     Document Type: Article

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