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Unexpected Mechanism of Symbiont-Induced Reversal of Insect Sex: Feminizing Wolbachia Continuously Acts on the Butterfly Eurema hecabe during Larval Development

When the butterfly Eurema hecabe is infected with two different strains (wHecCI2 and wHecFem2) of the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia, genetic males are transformed into functional females, resulting in production of all-female broods. In an attempt to understand how and when the Wolbachia endosymb...

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Autori principali: Narita, Satoko, Kageyama, Daisuke, Nomura, Masashi, Fukatsu, Takema
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: American Society for Microbiology 2007
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932763/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17496135
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00145-07
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