<italic toggle="yes">Wolbachia</italic> Influences the Maternal Transmission of the <italic toggle="yes">gypsy</italic> Endogenous Retrovirus in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Drosophila melanogaster</named-content>
ABSTRACT The endosymbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are present in most insects and are maternally transmitted through the germline. Moreover, these intracellular bacteria exert antiviral activity against insect RNA viruses, as in Drosophila melanogaster, which could explain the prevalence of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2014-10-01
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| Series: | mBio |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.01529-14 |