Bacterial symbionts in insects: Balancing life and death

Symbiosis

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 37-53

  Harris, Harriet L ^a,b   Brennan, Lesley J ^a   Keddie, B Andrew ^a   Braig, Henk R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies   (Canada)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardinium; Cytoplasmic incompatibility; Endosymbiosis; Host fitness; Insect immunity; Male killing; Spiroplasma; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMINIZATION; FITNESS; GENOME; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; IDENTIFICATION KEY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INSECT; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; NEMATODE; PARASITISM; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS CARDINIUM; HEXAPODA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; SPIROPLASMA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 77955556514     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13199-010-0065-3     Document Type: Article

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