Wolbachia prevalence, diversity, and ability to induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in mosquitoes
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Evolution of Wolbachia cytoplasmic incompatibility types.
The success of obligate endosymbiotic Wolbachia infections in insects is due in part to cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), whereby Wolbachia bacteria manipulate host reproduction to promote their invasion and persistence within insect populations. The observed diversity of CI types raises the question of what the evolutionary pathways are by which a new CI type can evolve from an ancestral type....
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Opinion in Insect Science
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2214-5745
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2019.02.005