NALT

Preferred term

cytoplasmic incompatibility

Topic

Reproductive incompatibility between allopatric populations of the same species in which eggs fertilized by sperm from males infected with a rickettsial endosymbiont fail to hatch. This effect occurs chiefly in insects as well as some other arthropods, and the most studied and apparently most common of these reproductive parasites are Wolbachia spp.

animal fertility

Wolbachia

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

10951

Spanish

incompatibilidad citoplasmática
citoplasmática, incompatibilidad

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/9202

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 11/30/12