First record of Wolbachia in South American terrestrial isopods: prevalence and diversity in two species of Balloniscus (Crustacea, Oniscidea)

First record of Wolbachia in South American terrestrial isopods: prevalence and diversity in two species of Balloniscus (Crustacea, Oniscidea)

Wolbachia are endosymbiotic bacteria that commonly infect arthropods, inducing certain phenotypes in their hosts. So far, no endemic South American species of terrestrial isopods have been investigated for Wolbachia infection. In this work, populations from two species of Balloniscus (B. sellowii an...

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Main Authors: Mauricio Pereira Almerão, Nelson Jurandi Rosa Fagundes, Paula Beatriz de Araújo, Sébastien Verne, Frédéric Grandjean, Didier Bouchon, Aldo Mellender Araújo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Genética 2012-01-01
Series:Genetics and Molecular Biology
Subjects:
Wolbachia
prevalence
diversity
South America
Oniscidea
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572012000600013

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