Antibiotic treatment leads to the elimination of Wolbachia endosymbionts and sterility in the diplodiploid collembolan Folsomia candida

BACKGROUND: Wolbachia is an extremely widespread bacterial endosymbiont of arthropods and nematodes that causes a variety of reproductive peculiarities. Parthenogenesis is one such peculiarity but it has been hypothesised that this phenomenon may be functionally restricted to organisms that employ h...

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Autores principales: Pike, Nathan, Kingcombe, Rachel
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19698188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-54

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2739161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19698188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-54

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