Wolbachia inhibits ovarian formation and increases blood feeding rate in female Aedes aegypti.

• Hoofdauteurs: Meng-Jia Lau (Auteur), Perran A Ross (Auteur), Nancy M Endersby-Harshman (Auteur), Qiong Yang (Auteur), Ary A Hoffmann (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Wolbachia, a gram-negative endosymbiotic bacterium widespread in arthropods, is well-known for changing the reproduction of its host in ways that increase its rate of spread, but there are also costs to hosts that can reduce this. Here we investigated a novel reproductive alteration of Wolbachia wAl...