Inbreeding depression affects life-history traits but not infection by Plasmodium gallinaceum in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 669-677

  O'Donnell, Deborah ^a   Armbruster, Peter ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inbreeding depression; Life history; Pathogen susceptibility; Transgenic modification; Vector competence

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); INBREEDING DEPRESSION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INBREEDING; INSECT VECTORS; LARVA; MALE; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; PLASMODIUM GALLINACEUM;

EID: 77953230765     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.03.011     Document Type: Article

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