Wolbachia
Written by Dr. T. M. Wassenaar Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:31
Collection sites, home-pages
Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information
- Brief description of Wolbachia (NSF)
- What Wolbachia can do to insects (ScienceNewsOnline) (don't take the science fiction part for real!)
- Wolbachia, widow maker (Nature Science Update)
- Bacteria can alter evolution of another species (UniSci)
- Wolbachia helps sterile insects reproduce prevent wasps to mate (Uni Berkeley)
- Bacteria spurs speciation (Scientific American)
- Wolbachia inside parasitic worms cause river blindness (IRINnews.org)
- Bacteria, not worms, cause river blindness (CBC news)
Lectures
- Evolutionary interactions of Wolbachia and their insect hosts (DeWayne Shoemaker)
- Asexual reproduction in plants and animals (Kimball Biology Papers)
Scientific papers
- Wolbachia: evolutionary novelty in a rickettsial bacteria (BioMedCentral)
- Wolbachia in leaf cutting ants may induce male killing or incompatible matings (J. Evol. Biol.) PDF file
Scientific links
- Genus nomenclature (JP Euzeby)
Last Updated on Tuesday, 30 November 1999 01:00