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Male-killing endosymbionts: influence of environmental conditions on persistence of host metapopulation

BACKGROUND: Male killing endosymbionts manipulate their arthropod host reproduction by only allowing female embryos to develop into infected females and killing all male offspring. Because of the reproductive manipulation, we expect them to have an effect on the evolution of host dispersal rates. In...

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Autores principales: Bonte, Dries, Hovestadt, Thomas, Poethke, Hans-Joachim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2546409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18764948
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-243