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Novel Wolbachia-transinfected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes possess diverse fitness and vector competence phenotypes

Wolbachia pipientis from Drosophila melanogaster (wMel) is an endosymbiotic bacterium that restricts transmission of human pathogenic flaviviruses and alphaviruses, including dengue, Zika, and chikungunya viruses, when introduced into the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti. To date, wMel-infected Ae. aeg...

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Autores principales: Fraser, Johanna E., De Bruyne, Jyotika Taneja, Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Iñaki, Stepnell, Justin, Burns, Rhiannon L., Flores, Heather A., O’Neill, Scott L.
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/PMC5736235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29216317
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006751