Fifty-Year Trend Towards Suppression of Wolbachia-Induced Male-Killing by Its Butterfly Host, Hypolimnas bolina

Some intracellular symbionts of arthropods induce a variety of reproductive alterations in their hosts, and the alterations tend to spread easily within the host populations. A few cases involving the spread of alteration-inducing Wolbachia bacteria in natural populations with time have been reporte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mitsuhashi, Wataru, Ikeda, Hiroshi, Muraji, Masahiko
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: University of Wisconsin Library 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281488/