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Horizontal gene transfer between Wolbachia and the mosquito Aedes aegypti

BACKGROUND: The evolutionary importance of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) from Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria to their eukaryotic hosts is a topic of considerable interest and debate. Recent transfers of genome fragments from Wolbachia into insect chromosomes have been reported, but it has been ar...

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Autores principales: Klasson, Lisa, Kambris, Zakaria, Cook, Peter E, Walker, Thomas, Sinkins, Steven P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19154594
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-33