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Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction

BACKGROUND: The maternally inherited, bacterial symbiont, parthenogenesis inducing (PI) Wolbachia, causes females in some haplodiploid insects to produce daughters from both fertilized and unfertilized eggs. The symbionts, with their maternal inheritance, benefit from inducing the production of excl...

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Autores principales: Stouthamer, Richard, Russell, James E, Vavre, Fabrice, Nunney, Leonard
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2927591/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20667099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-229