Wolbachia infection lowers fertile sperm transfer in a moth

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-189

  Lewis, Z ^a   De Crespigny, F E Champion ^a   Sait, S M ^b   Tregenza, T ^a   Wedell, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endosymbiont; Lepidoptera; Sperm heteromorphism; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; ENDOSYMBIONT; MATURATION; MOTH; SPERM;

ANAGASTA KUEHNIELLA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 79954490942     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0605     Document Type: Article

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