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Strain-specific regulation of intracellular Wolbachia density in multiply infected insects.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2003
Mouton L, Henri H, Bouletreau M, Vavre F
Abstract excerpt
Vertically transmitted symbionts suffer a severe reduction in numbers when they pass through host generations, resulting in genetic homogeneity or even clonality of their populations. Wolbachia endosymbionts that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in their hosts depart from this rule, because cyt...
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