Evidence of hermaphroditism and sex ratio distortion in the fungal feeding nematode Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis.

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Published in G3 (Bethesda) on August 12, 2014

Authors

Ryoji Shinya1, Koichi Hasegawa2, Anthony Chen3, Natsumi Kanzaki4, Paul W Sternberg5

Author Affiliations

1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 Department of the Environmental Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-8501 Japan.
2: Department of the Environmental Biology, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-8501 Japan.
3: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.
4: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba 305-8687, Japan.
5: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 pws@caltech.edu.

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