EFFECT OF ELEVATED TEMPERATURE ON THE SURVIVAL OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER INFECTED WITH A PATHOGENIC WOLBACHIA STRAIN

The pathogenic Wolbachia strain wMelPop is detected in the central nervous system, muscles, and retina of Drosophila melanogaster. It reduces the host lifetime twofold. This fact makes it promising for control of insect pests and transmitters of human diseases. Any symbiotic association is exposed t...

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Main Authors: A. A. Strunov, Yu. Yu. Ilinskii, I. K. Zakharov, E. V. Kiseleva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, The Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders 2014-12-01
Series:Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
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Online Access:https://vavilov.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/148