Male-killing Wolbachia in two species of insect
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Gregory D. D. Hurst1*, Francis M. Jiggins2, J. Hinrich Graf von der Schulenburg2, Dominique Bertrand2, Stuart A. West3, Irina I. Goriacheva4, Ilia A. Zakharov4, John H. Werren5, Richard Stouthamer6 and Michael E. N. Majerus2 1Department of Biology, University College London, 4 StephensonWay, London NW1 2HE, UK 2Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EH, UK 3Institute of Cell, Animal and Population Biology, Ashworth Laboratories, King's Buildings,West Mains Road, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK 4Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Gubkhin Street 3, Moscow 117809, Russia 5Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA 6Department of Entomology, Agricultural University ofWageningen, POBox 8031, 6700 EH Wageningen,The Netherlands
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