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High temperature mortality of Wolbachia impacts the sex ratio of the parasitoid Ooencyrtus mirus (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)

BACKGROUND: Wolbachia bacteria are estimated to occur in more than half of all insect species. In Hymenoptera, Wolbachia often manipulates its host’s reproduction to its own advantage. Wolbachia is likely the reason that males are rare in the uniparental Ooencyrtus mirus Triapitsyn & Power (Hyme...

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Autores principales: Power, Nancy R., Rugman-Jones, Paul F., Stouthamer, Richard, Ganjisaffar, Fatemeh, Perring, Thomas M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9480061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36117539
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13912