Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 613-615

  Gehrer, Lukas ^a,b   Vorburger, Christoph ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aphis fabae; Bacterial endosymbiont; Horizontal transmission; Maternal transmission; Parasitoid; Vector

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIUM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE VECTOR; ECTOPARASITE; ENDOSYMBIONT; HERITABILITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION;

ACARI; APHIDIDAE; APHIS FABAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; CANDIDATUS REGIELLA INSECTICOLA;

EID: 84859702084     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0144     Document Type: Article

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