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Distribution, expression, and motif variability of ankyrin domain genes in Wolbachia pipientis.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 2005
Iturbe-Ormaetxe Iñaki, Burke Gaelen R, Riegler Markus, O'Neill Scott L
Abstract excerpt
The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis infects a wide range of arthropods, in which it induces a variety of reproductive phenotypes, including cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), parthenogenesis, male killing, and reversal of genetic sex determination. The recent sequencing and annotation of the first Wolbachia genome revealed an unusually high number of genes encoding ankyrin domain (ANK) repeats. These...
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