Transinfection of wolbachia in planthoppers: Nymphal injection of cultured wolbachia and infection dynamics

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1626-1633

  Kawai, Sawako ^a,b   Matsumoto, Yukiko ^a   Gotoh, Tetsuo ^b   Noda, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoplasmic incompatibility; Laodelphax striatellus; Microinjection; Nilaparvata lugens; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

CYTOPLASM; INFECTIVITY; INSECT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROINJECTION; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; NYMPH; REPRODUCTION; WOLBACHIA;

ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LAODELPHAX STRIATELLUS; NILAPARVATA LUGENS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 71749112630     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0615     Document Type: Article

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