Transinfected Wolbachia have minimal effects on male reproductive success in Aedes aegypti

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Turley, Andrew P ^a   Zalucki, Myron P ^b   O'Neill, Scott L ^a,b   McGraw, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Larval nutrition Wolbachia; Mosquito; Multiple mating; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FORELIMB; HATCHING; LARVA; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PARASITE VIABILITY; PARASITE VIRULENCE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC FITNESS; LARVA; MALE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; DENGUE VIRUS; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84873503586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-36     Document Type: Article

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