Wolbachia associations with insects: Winning or losing against a master manipulator

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Correa, Claudia C ^a   Ballard, J W O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conflict of interest; Cytoplasmic genomes; Mutualism; Parasitism; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964390378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296701X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00153     Document Type: Review

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