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Tandem repeat markers as novel diagnostic tools for high resolution fingerprinting of Wolbachia.
BMC microbiology - 18 Jan 2012
Riegler Markus, Iturbe-Ormaetxe Iñaki, Woolfit Megan, Miller Wolfgang J, O'Neill Scott L
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BACKGROUND: Strains of the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis are extremely diverse both genotypically and in terms of their induced phenotypes in invertebrate hosts. Despite extensive molecular characterisation of Wolbachia diversity, little is known about the actual genomic diversity within or between closely related strains that group tightly on the basis of existing gene marker systems, including...
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