Resistance to a bacterial parasite in the crustacean Daphnia magna shows Mendelian segregation with dominance

Heredity

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 547-551

  Luijckx, P ^a,b   Fienberg, H ^a,c   Duneau, D ^a   Ebert, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Daphnia magna; host; Mendelian segregation; parasite; Pasteuria ramose; resistance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; CRUSTACEAN; DOMINANCE; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DAPHNIA; DOMINANT GENE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PASTEURIA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DAPHNIA; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MALE; PASTEURIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA MAGNA; INVERTEBRATA; PASTEURIA; PASTEURIA RAMOSA;

EID: 84859989799     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.122     Document Type: Article

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