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Genome-wide analysis of the interaction between the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia and its Drosophila host.
BMC genomics - 2 Jan 2008
Xi Zhiyong, Gavotte Laurent, Xie Yan, Dobson Stephen L
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BACKGROUND: Intracellular Wolbachia bacteria are obligate, maternally-inherited, endosymbionts found frequently in insects and other invertebrates. The success of Wolbachia can be attributed in part to an ability to alter host reproduction via mechanisms including cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI)...
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