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<i>Wolbachia</i> uses ankyrin repeats to target specific fly proteins
2025-05-17
Abstract excerpt
Arthropods, the most diverse phylum on Earth, are hosts to a plethora of bacterial parasites that secrete various effectors of unknown function during infection. The most prevalent of these is the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis . The microbe infects between 40-60% of insect species, causes important reproductive manipulations, and limits virus replication in arthropod vectors, becoming a promising bi...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c0df81cf-7a11-5ec2-8328-3142e862c382
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- 10.1101/2025.05.15.654400
