Wolbachia & Reproductive Parasitism

Wolbachia is an obligate, intracellular _________

• Symbiont

• Endosymbiont

• Virus

• Heartworm

Wolbachia lives within the cells of its ___ host

• eukaryotic

• filarial

• endosymbiotic

• prokaryotic

Wolbachia infects approximately ___ of all arthropods

• 20%

• 95%

• 40%

• 70%

Wolbachia resides in ___ tissues, such as ovaries and testes.

• somatic

• reproductive

• bone

• cartilage

Like ___, Wolbachia is ___ - transmitted.

• parthenogenesis, paternally

• mitochondria,

  paternally

• heartworm, maternally

• mitochondria, maternally

Wolbachia infections can be treated with ___.

• antibiotics

• NSAIDS

• probiotics

• analgesics

___ is the genetic code (DNA) responsible for a particular trait.

• pretype

• genotype

• reprotype

• phenotype

___ is the visible or expressed trait.

• phenotype

• genotype

• filotype

What is it called when males die during embryogenesis?

(one of four reproductive phenotypes)

• feminization

• male-killing

• parthenogenesis

• cytoplasmic incompatibility

What is it called when females reproduce asexually?

(one of the four reproductive phenotypes)

• cytoplasmic incompatibility

• feminization

• male-killing

• parthenogenesis