| Literature DB >> 16180076 |
Atsushi Chigira1, Kazuki Miura.
Abstract
Brevipalpus californicus (Banks) was infected with 'Candidatus Cardinium' bacteria (Cardinium). Tetracycline-treated females produced many male progeny even though untreated females produced only female progeny. B. californicus appears to be feminized by Cardinium. The values for net reproduction rate (R0), generation time (T) and intrinsic rate of natural increase (r(m)) calculated for B. californicus were 7.48/day, 31.45 days and 0.064/day, respectively. The comparison of infected females with uninfected males and other closely related species, indicated that Cardinium does not have a negative effect on the fitness of B. californicus.Entities:
Mesh:
Substances:
Year: 2005 PMID: 16180076 DOI: 10.1007/s10493-005-0592-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Exp Appl Acarol ISSN: 0168-8162 Impact factor: 2.132