A male-killing Wolbachia carries a feminizing factor and is associated with degradation of the sex-determining system of its host

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 412-415

  Sugimoto, Takafumi N ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doublesex; Feminization; Male killing; Masculinization; Ostrinia scapulalis; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HOMOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; LARVA; MALE; MASCULINIZATION; MOTH; PHENOTYPE;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA SCAPULALIS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84861228643     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1114     Document Type: Article

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