Factors influencing the intriguing persistencce of a Wolbachia symbiont in spotted wing Drosophila
Wolbachia is a maternally inherited, endosymbiotic bacterium that infects at least 40% of terrestrial arthropods. As a facultative symbiont in the majority of its hosts, Wolbachia commonly act as a reproductive parasite; however, there are a number of Wolbachia strains that do not cause reproductive...
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13005 |