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The Intracellular Bacterium Wolbachia Uses Parasitoid Wasps as Phoretic Vectors for Efficient Horizontal Transmission

Facultative bacterial endosymbionts are associated with many arthropods and are primarily transmitted vertically from mother to offspring. However, phylogenetic affiliations suggest that horizontal transmission must also occur. Such horizontal transfer can have important biological and agricultural...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Muhammad Z., Li, Shao-Jian, Xue, Xia, Yin, Xiang-Jie, Ren, Shun-Xiang, Jiggins, Francis M., Greeff, Jaco M., Qiu, Bao-Li
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4347858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25675099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004672