Stability of the wMel Wolbachia Infection following Invasion into Aedes aegypti Populations

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Hoffmann, Ary A ^a   Iturbe Ormaetxe, Inaki ^b   Callahan, Ashley G ^a   Phillips, Ben L ^c   Billington, Katrina ^b   Axford, Jason K ^a   Montgomery, Brian ^b   Turley, Andrew P ^b   O'Neill, Scott L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FIELD STUDY; FITNESS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; WOLBACHIA INFECTION; AEDES; ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; QUEENSLAND; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84907587658     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003115     Document Type: Article

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