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Within- and between-population variation for Wolbachia-induced reproductive incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Jul 2002
Vala F, Weeks A, Claessen D, Breeuwer J A J, Sabelis M W
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Wolbachia pipientis is a bacterium that induces cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), the phenomenon in which infected males are reproductively incompatible with uninfected females. CI spreads in a population of hosts because it reduces the fitness of uninfected females relative to infected females. CI encompasses two steps: modification (mod) of sperm of infected males and rescuing (resc) of these chromosomes by...
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