Impacts of Wolbachia infection on predator prey relationships: Evaluating survival and horizontal transfer between wMelPop infected Aedes aegypti and its predators

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 624-630

  Hurst, Timothy P ^a   Pittman, Geoff ^b   O'Neill, Scott L ^c   Ryan, Peter A ^a,c   Nguyen, Hoang Le ^d   Kay, Brian H ^a  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; fitness; predation; transfer; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COPEPOD; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPIDER; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; COPEPODA; LARVA; POECILIA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; COPEPODA; CYCLOPOIDA; DENGUE VIRUS GROUP; SALTICIDAE; TOXORHYNCHITES; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84861139715     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/ME11277     Document Type: Article

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