Infections with Wolbachia and Spiroplasma in the Scathophagidae and other Muscoidea

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 315-323

  Martin, Oliver Y ^a   Gubler, Andrea ^b   Wimmer, Corinne ^b   Germann, Christoph ^b   Bernasconi, Marco V ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diptera; Endosymbiont; Host; Reproductive parasite; Scatophaga; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; FEMALE; FLY; MALE; MUSCOIDEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA; SEXUAL SELECTION; SPIROPLASMA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; DIPTERA; DNA, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SPIROPLASMA; WOLBACHIA;

ANTHOMYIIDAE; ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; DROSOPHILIDAE; FANNIIDAE; MUSCIDAE; MUSCOIDEA; SCATHOPHAGA; SCATHOPHAGA STERCORARIA; SCATHOPHAGIDAE; SPIROPLASMA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84857644585     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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