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Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in laboratory and natural populations of different species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina)

BACKGROUND: Wolbachia is a genus of endosymbiotic α-Proteobacteria infecting a wide range of arthropods and filarial nematodes. Wolbachia is able to induce reproductive abnormalities such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), thelytokous parthenogenesis, feminization and male killing, thus affecting...

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Autores principales: Doudoumis, Vangelis, Tsiamis, George, Wamwiri, Florence, Brelsfoard, Corey, Alam, Uzma, Aksoy, Emre, Dalaperas, Stelios, Abd-Alla, Adly, Ouma, Johnson, Takac, Peter, Aksoy, Serap, Bourtzis, Kostas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3287514/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22376025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-12-S1-S3