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The spread of Wolbachia through mosquito populations

In many regions of the world, mosquito-borne viruses pose a growing threat to human health. As an alternative to traditional control measures, the bacterial symbiont Wolbachia has been transferred from Drosophila into the mosquito Aedes aegypti, where it can block the transmission of dengue and Zika...

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Autor principal: Jiggins, Francis M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28570608
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2002780