Rapidly Shifting Sex Ratio across a Species Range

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 1628-1631

  Hornett, Emily A ^a   Charlat, Sylvain ^b   Wedell, Nina ^c   Jiggins, Chris D ^d   Hurst, Gregory D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ECO_EVOL

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BUTTERFLY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALAYSIA; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHILIPPINES; POLYNESIA; SEX RATIO; TIME; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; MALAYSIA; MALE; PHILIPPINES; POLYNESIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX RATIO; TIME FACTORS; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); WOLBACHIA;

EID: 70349784220     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.071     Document Type: Article

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