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Diminutive, degraded but dissimilar: Wolbachia genomes from filarial nematodes do not conform to a single paradigm
1 Dec 2020
Abstract excerpt
Wolbachia are alpha-proteobacteria symbionts infecting a large range of arthropod species and two different families of nematodes. Interestingly, these endosymbionts are able to induce diverse phenotypes in their hosts: they are reproductive parasites within many arthropods, nutritional mutualists within some insects and obligate mutualists within their filarial nematode hosts. Defining Wolbachia ‘species’ is...
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