Spiders do not escape reproductive manipulations by <it>Wolbachia</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Maternally inherited bacteria that reside obligatorily or facultatively in arthropods can increase their prevalence in the population by altering their hosts' reproduction. Such reproductive manipulations have been reported from...

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Main Authors: Hendrickx Frederik, Swaegers Janne, Vanthournout Bram
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-01-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/15