Development, specificity and sublethal effects of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

Functional Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 207-215

  Schmid, Maike ^a   Sieber, Raphael ^a   Zimmermann, Yannick Serge ^a,b   Vorburger, Christoph ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aphis fabae; Co evolution; Hamiltonella defensa; Lysiphlebus fabarum; Parasitoid; Quantitative PCR; Resistance; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; ENDOSYMBIONT; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; IMMUNOASSAY; ONTOGENY; PARASITE RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUBLETHAL EFFECT; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS FABAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; HEXAPODA; LYSIPHLEBUS FABARUM;

EID: 84855991909     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01904.x     Document Type: Article

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