Caught in the act: Rapid, symbiont-driven evolution: Endosymbiont infection is a mechanism generating rapid evolution in some arthropods - but how widespread is the phenomenon?

BioEssays

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 823-829

  White, Jennifer A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Mutualism; Rickettsia; Symbiosis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENDOSYMBIONT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SWEET POTATO WHITEFLY; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MALE; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RICKETTSIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 80054686610     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100095     Document Type: Article

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