The origin of a selfish B chromosome triggering paternal sex ratio in the parasitoid wasp Trichogramma kaykai

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1676, 2009, Pages 4149-4154

  Van Vugt, Joke J F A ^a,c   De Jong, Hans ^a   Stouthamer, Richard ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

B chromosome; Chromosome origin; ITS2; PSR chromosome; rDNA; Trichogramma kaykai

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA;

CHROMOSOME; CYTOGENETICS; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PARASITOID; PATERNAL EFFECT; SATELLITE DATA; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CYTOGENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; HAPLOIDY; INSECT GENOME; MALE; NASONIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO; SPERM; TRANSPOSON; TRICHOGRAMMA KAYKAI; WASP;

NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; TRICHOGRAMMA; TRICHOGRAMMA KAYKAI; TRICHOGRAMMA OLEAE; TRICHOMALOPSIS;

EID: 72849138024     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1238     Document Type: Article

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