Medfly-Wolbachia symbiosis: genotype x genotype interactions determine host’s life history traits under mass rearing conditions
Abstract Background Wolbachia pipientis is a widespread, obligatory intracellular and maternally inherited bacterium, that induces a wide range of reproductive alterations to its hosts. Cytoplasmic Incompatibility (CI) is causing embryonic lethality, the most common of them. Despite that Wolbachia-b...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-12-01
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| Series: | BMC Biotechnology |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12896-019-0586-7 |