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NAL Agricultural Thesaurus
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Concept Breadcrumbs

Fields of Study > zoology > animal physiology > animal reproduction > animal fertility > cytoplasmic incompatibility
Animals, Livestock, One Health > zoology > animal physiology > animal reproduction > animal fertility > cytoplasmic incompatibility
Fields of Study > physiology > animal physiology > animal reproduction > animal fertility > cytoplasmic incompatibility
Fields of Study > physiology > reproduction > animal reproduction > animal fertility > cytoplasmic incompatibility
Preferred Term:

cytoplasmic incompatibility

Definition:
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.
Concept Schemes:
NALT Full
Broader Concept:
animal fertility
Related Concepts:
URI:
https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/9202
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