Wolbachia Endobacteria in Natural Populations of Culex pipiens of Iran and its Phylogenetic Congruence

• Main Authors: Mohsen Karami (Author), Seyed Hassan Moosa-Kazemi (Author), Mohammad Ali Oshaghi (Author), Hasan Vatandoost (Author), Mohammad Mehdi Sedaghat (Author), Ramazan Rajabnia (Author), Mostafa Hosseini (Author), Naseh Maleki-Ravasan (Author), Yousef Yahyapour (Author), Elaheh Ferdosi-Shahandashti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2016-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Wolbachia are common intracellular bacteria that infect different groups of arthropods including mos­quitoes. These bacteria modify host biology and may induce feminization, parthenogenesis, male killing and cyto­plasmic incompatibility (CI). Recently Wolbachia is being nominated as a bi...