Combining the sterile insect technique with the incompatible insect technique: I-impact of Wolbachia infection on the fitness of triple- and double-infected strains of Aedes albopictus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Dongjing ^a,b   Zheng, Xiaoying ^b   Xi, Zhiyong ^b,c   Bourtzis, Kostas ^a   Gilles, Jeremie R L ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HATCHING; INCOMPATIBLE INSECT TECHNIQUE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LONGEVITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STERILE INSECT TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; WOLBACHIA; WOLBACHIA INFECTION; AEDES; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; LONGEVITY; MALE; SYMBIOSIS; WOLBACHIA; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 84929492251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121126     Document Type: Article

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