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Host genotype changes bidirectional to unidirectional cytoplasmic incompatibility in Nasonia longicornis.
Heredity - 1 Feb 2012
Raychoudhury R, Werren J H
Abstract excerpt
Wolbachia are the most abundant maternally inherited endosymbionts of insects and cause various reproductive alterations in their hosts. One such manipulation is cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), which is a sperm-egg incompatibility typically resulting in zygotic death. Nasonia longicornis (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) has an A supergroup and two closely related B supergroup Wolbachia infections. The B supergroup...
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