The diversity and fitness effects of infection with facultative endosymbionts in the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 985-996

  Łukasik, Piotr ^a,c   Dawid, Maciej A ^a   Ferrari, Julia ^a,b   Godfray, H Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; APSE; Regiella insecticola; Secondary endosymbiont; Serratia symbiotica

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INFECTIVITY; MUTUALISM; PARASITISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS ERVI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS HAMILTONELLA DEFENSA; CANDIDATUS REGIELLA INSECTICOLA; CANDIDATUS SERRATIA SYMBIOTICA; EPHEDRUS PLAGIATOR; HEXAPODA; SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM; SERRATIA; SITOBION AVENAE;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMBIOSIS; WASP;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; OVIPOSITION; SYMBIOSIS; WASPS;

EID: 84885927462     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2660-5     Document Type: Article

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