Mito-nuclear genetic comparison in a Wolbachia infected weevil: Insights on reproductive mode, infection age and evolutionary forces shaping genetic variation

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rodriguero, Marcela S ^a   Lanteri, Analía A ^b   Confalonieri, Viviana A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BEETLE; COEVOLUTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INFECTIVITY; MATERNAL EFFECT; ORNAMENTAL SPECIES; PARTHENOGENESIS; RECOMBINATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NAUPACTUS; VASCONCELLEA CANDICANS; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; WEEVIL; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; PHYLOGENY; WEEVILS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 78049403201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-340     Document Type: Article

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