Life cycle and population dynamics of a protective insect symbiont reveal severe bottlenecks during vertical transmission

Evolutionary Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 463-477

  Kaltenpoth, Martin ^a,b   Goettler, Wolfgang ^a   Koehler, Sabrina ^a   Strohm, Erhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottleneck; Defensive symbiosis; Muller's ratchet; Real time quantitative PCR; Specific growth rate; Streptomyces

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COCOON; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENOME; GROWTH RATE; HIBERNATION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; MUTUALISM; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); WASP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRABRONIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PHILANTHUS TRIANGULUM; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 77952744461     PISSN: 02697653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10682-009-9319-z     Document Type: Article

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