Double trouble: Combined action of meiotic drive and Wolbachia feminization in Eurema butterflies

Biology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Kern, Peter ^a   Cook, James M ^a   Kageyama, Daisuke ^b   Riegler, Markus ^a  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene dosage; Meiotic drive; Sex chromosome; Sex determination; W chromatin body; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BUTTERFLY; CHROMOSOME; FEMINIZATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO;

ARTHROPODA; EUREMA; MANDARINA; PAPILIONOIDEA; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMAL; BUTTERFLY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEX RATIO; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BUTTERFLIES; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FEMALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX RATIO; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84929120129     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0095     Document Type: Article

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