The tripartite associations between bacteriophage, Wolbachia, and arthropods.
By manipulating arthropod reproduction worldwide, the heritable endosymbiont Wolbachia has spread to pandemic levels. Little is known about the microbial basis of cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) except that bacterial densities and percentages of infected sperm cysts associate with incompatibility s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2006-05-01
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| Series: | PLoS Pathogens |
| Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1463016?pdf=render |