Ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes in the wPip strain of Wolbachia from the Culex pipiens group |
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| Authors: | Thomas Walker Lisa Klasson Mohammed Sebaihia Mandy J Sanders Nicholas R Thomson Julian Parkhill Steven P Sinkins |
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| Institution: | (1) Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research and Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK;(2) Pathogen Sequencing Unit, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK |
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| Abstract: | Background
Wolbachia are obligate endosymbiotic bacteria maternally transmitted through the egg cytoplasm that are responsible for several reproductive
disorders in their insect hosts, such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in infected mosquitoes. Species in the Culex pipiens complex display an unusually high number of Wolbachia-induced crossing types, and based on present data, only the wPip strain is present. |
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