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Induced paternal effects mimic cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila.
Genetics - 1 Jun 2006
Clark Michael E, Heath Benjamin D, Anderson Cort L, Karr Timothy L
Abstract excerpt
Wolbachia is an intracellular microbe found in a wide diversity of arthropod and filarial nematode hosts. In arthropods these common bacteria are reproductive parasites that manipulate central elements of their host's reproduction to increase their own maternal transmission in one of several ways. Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is one such manipulation where sperm are somehow modified in infected males and this...
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