Sentences with phrase «cytoplasmic incompatibility»
(2011) Host genotype changes bi-directional to uni-directional cytoplasmic incompatibility in Nasonia longicornis.
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Host genotype determines Wolbachia cytoplasmic incompatibility type in Nasonia.
Masato Hiroki, Yumiko Ishii & Yoshiomi Kato — 2005 (6)([email protected]) Keywords: cytoplasmic incompatibility, Eurema hecabe, reproductive isolation, speciation, Wolbachia
Variation in the prevalence of cytoplasmic incompatibility - inducing Wolbachia in the butterfly Eurema hecabe across the Japanese archipelago.
Wolbachia is a common maternally inherited bacterial symbiont able to induce crossing sterilities known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in insects.
In this work, stable infections of wAlbB Wolbachia were established in A. aegypti and caused high rates of cytoplasmic incompatibility (that is, elimination of egg hatch).
For instance, by ensuring that infected males can't reproduce with uninfected females — a phenomenon called cytoplasmic incompatibility — the bacteria can maximize the number of infected offspring in the next generation and sweep through populations in very little time.
The bacterium Wolbachia manipulates reproduction in millions of insects worldwide; the most common effect is cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI).