Comparative Genomics of a Parthenogenesis-Inducing Wolbachia Symbiont
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Comparative Genomics of a Parthenogenesis-Inducing Wolbachia Symbiont
Wolbachia is an intracellular symbiont of invertebrates responsible for inducing a wide variety of phenotypes in its host. These host-Wolbachia relationships span the continuum from reproductive parasitism to obligate mutualism, and provide a unique system to study genomic changes associated with the evolution of symbiosis. We present the genome sequence from a parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachi...
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عنوان ژورنال: G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2160-1836
DOI: 10.1534/g3.116.028449