Tissue tropism, transmission and expression of foreign genes <i>in vivo</i> in midgut symbionts of tsetse flies

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Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) harbour three different symbiotic organisms in addition to the pathogenic African trypanosomes they transmit. The two gut-associated symbionts (primary, P; secondary, S) are enteric and are nutritionally required, whereas the third microorganism Wolbachia (family Rickettsiaceae) affects the reproductive biology of the insects it infects. The bacteriome-associated P-symbiont...

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