Prophage WO Genes Recapitulate and Enhance Wolbachia-induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

The genus Wolbachia is an archetype of maternally inherited intracellular bacteria that infect the germline of numerous invertebrate species worldwide. They can selfishly alter arthropod sex ratios and reproductive strategies to increase the proportion of the infected matriline in the population. Th...

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Published in:Nature
Main Authors: LePage, Daniel P., Metcalf, Jason A., Bordenstein, Sarah R., On, Jungmin, Perlmutter, Jessamyn I., Shropshire, J. Dylan, Layton, Emily M., Funkhouser-Jones, Lisa J., Beckmann, John F., Bordenstein, Seth R.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5358093/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28241146
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature21391
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