Heritability and adaptive phenotypic plasticity of adult body size in the mosquito Aedes aegypti with implications for dengue vector competence

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 11-16

  Schneider, Jennifer R ^a   Chadee, Dave D ^b   Mori, Akio ^a   Romero Severson, Jeanne ^a   Severson, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Balancing selection; Genetic variance; Heritability; Norms of reaction; Phenotypic plasticity; Vector competence

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; IMAGO; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO; VIRUS CARRIER;

AEDES; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; PHENOTYPE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARBOVIRUS;

EID: 78650197872     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.10.019     Document Type: Article

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