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Lack of Evidence for Natural Wolbachia Infections in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)
13 Jun 2018
Abstract excerpt
Wolbachia is a genus of endosymbiotic bacteria that infects 66% of all insect species. Its major impact on insects is in reproduction: sterility, production of one sex, and/or parthenogenesis. Another effect was discovered when the disease-transmitting mosquito, Aedes aegypti Linnaeus (Diptera: Culicidae), was infected with Wolbachia isolated from Drosophila: infected female mosquitoes became less capable of...
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