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Male-killing toxin in a Drosophila bacterial symbiont

Several lineages of symbiotic bacteria in insects selfishly manipulate host reproduction to spread in a population1, often by distorting host sex ratios. Spiroplasma poulsonii2,3 (hereafter Spiroplasma) is a helical and motile, Gram-positive symbiotic bacterium, that resides in a wide range of Droso...

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Autores principales: Harumoto, Toshiyuki, Lemaitre, Bruno
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969570/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29720654
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0086-2