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Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Variations in Relation with Wolbachia cid Genes Divergence in Culex pipiens.
mBio - 9 Feb 2021
Sicard Mathieu, Namias Alice, Perriat-Sanguinet Marco, Carron Eric, Unal Sandra, Altinli Mine, Landmann Frederic, Weill Mylène
Abstract excerpt
In arthropods, Wolbachia endosymbionts induce conditional sterility, called cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), resulting from embryonic lethality. CI penetrance (i.e., embryonic death rate) varies depending on host species and Wolbachia strains involved. All Culex pipiens mosquitoes are infected by the endosymbiotic alphaproteobacteria Wolbachia wPip. CI in Culex, characterized as a binary...
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