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Mechanisms Promoting the Long-Term Persistence of a Wolbachia Infection in a Laboratory-Adapted Population of Drosophila melanogaster

Intracellular bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are widespread endosymbionts across diverse insect taxa. Despite this prevalence, our understanding of how Wolbachia persists within populations is not well understood. Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) appears to be an important phenotype maintaining Wol...

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Autores principales: Friberg, Urban, Miller, Paige M., Stewart, Andrew D., Rice, William R.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3025984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21283625
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016448