The host range of the male-killing symbiont Arsenophonus nasoniae in filth fly parasitioids

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 371-379

  Taylor, Graeme P ^a   Coghlin, Paul C ^b   Floate, Kevin D ^b   Perlman, Steve J ^a  

^a STN CSC ^*  (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arsenophonus; Male killer; Nasonia; Phage; Reproductive parasite; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; FLY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; WASPS;

ARSENOPHONUS; ARSENOPHONUS NASONIAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; PTEROMALIDAE; VESPOIDEA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 79751534518     PISSN: 00222011     EISSN: 10960805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jip.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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