Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential, and problems.

Wolbachia is a genus of bacterial endosymbionts that impacts the breeding systems of their hosts. Wolbachia can confuse the patterns of mitochondrial variation, including DNA barcodes, because it influences the pathways through which mitochondria are inherited. We examined the extent to which these...

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Main Authors: M Alex Smith, Claudia Bertrand, Kate Crosby, Eldon S Eveleigh, Jose Fernandez-Triana, Brian L Fisher, Jason Gibbs, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Winnie Hallwachs, Katharine Hind, Jan Hrcek, Da-Wei Huang, Milan Janda, Daniel H Janzen, Yanwei Li, Scott E Miller, Laurence Packer, Donald Quicke, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, Josephine Rodriguez, Rodolphe Rougerie, Mark R Shaw, Cory Sheffield, Julie K Stahlhut, Dirk Steinke, James Whitfield, Monty Wood, Xin Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22567162/?tool=EBI