Solving the wolbachia paradox: Modeling the tripartite interaction between host, Wolbachia, and a natural enemy

American Naturalist

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-342

  Fenton, Andrew ^a   Johnson, Karyn N ^b   Brownlie, Jeremy C ^c   Hurst, Gregory D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coinfection; Naturalenemy protection; Resistance; Symbiont; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; DISEASE VECTOR; FACILITATION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INDUCED RESPONSE; NATURAL ENEMY; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 80051524699     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661247     Document Type: Article

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