<i>Asaia</i> , a versatile acetic acid bacterial symbiont, capable of cross‐colonizing insects of phylogenetically distant genera and orders

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Bacterial symbionts of insects have been proposed for blocking transmission of vector-borne pathogens. However, in many vector models the ecology of symbionts and their capability of cross-colonizing different hosts, an important feature in the symbiotic control approach, is poorly known. Here we show that the acetic acid bacterium Asaia, previously found in the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles stephensi, is...

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