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Unique Wolbachia strain wMelPlus increases heat stress resistance in Drosophila melanogaster.
Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology - 1 Apr 2021
Burdina Elena V, Bykov Roman A, Menshanov Petr N, Ilinsky Yury Yu, Gruntenko Nataly Е
Abstract excerpt
Maternally inherited endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia infects Drosophila melanogaster populations worldwide. Its genetic diversity includes several closely related genotypes, which can be attributed to two main genotype groups: wMel and wMelCS. Here, we studied eight D. melanogaster lines carrying the nuclear background of wild type interbred Bi90 line and cytoplasmic backgrounds with or without Wolbachia of...
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