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Medfly-Wolbachia symbiosis: genotype x genotype interactions determine host's life history traits under mass rearing conditions.
BMC biotechnology - 18 Dec 2019
Kyritsis Georgios A, Augustinos Antonios A, Livadaras Ioannis, Cáceres Carlos, Bourtzis Kostas, Papadopoulos Nikos T
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BACKGROUND: Wolbachia pipientis is a widespread, obligatory intracellular and maternally inherited bacterium, that induces a wide range of reproductive alterations to its hosts. Cytoplasmic Incompatibility (CI) is causing embryonic lethality, the most common of them. Despite that Wolbachia-borne sterility has been proposed as an environmental friendly pest control method (Incompatible Insect Technique, IIT) since...
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