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

• Main Authors: Meng-Jia Lau (Author), Perran A Ross (Author), Nancy M Endersby-Harshman (Author), Qiong Yang (Author), Ary A Hoffmann (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...