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A rapidly spreading deleterious aphid endosymbiont that uses horizontal as well as vertical transmission.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 May 2023
Gu Xinyue, Ross Perran A, Gill Alex, Yang Qiong, Ansermin Eloïse, Sharma Sonia, Soleimannejad Safieh, Sharma Kanav, Callahan Ashley, Brown Courtney, Umina Paul A, Kristensen Torsten N, Hoffmann Ary A
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Endosymbiotic bacteria that live inside the cells of insects are typically only transmitted maternally and can spread by increasing host fitness and/or modifying reproduction in sexual hosts. Transinfections of Wolbachia endosymbionts are now being used to introduce useful phenotypes into sexual host populations, but there has been limited progress on applications using other endosymbionts and in asexual...
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