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Comparative Genomics of a Parthenogenesis-Inducing Wolbachia Symbiont. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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 ...
Lindsey, Amelia RI   +3 more
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Hooked on Wolbachia

open access: yesPeer Community in Evolutionary Biology, 2016
A recommendation of:Martinez J, Cogni R, Cao C, Smith S, Illingworth CJR & Jiggins FM. 2016. Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 283: 20160778.
Ana Rivero, Natacha Kremer
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Integrated Management of European Cherry Fruit Fly Rhagoletis cerasi (L.): Situation in Switzerland and Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
: The European cherry fruit fly, Rhagoletis cerasi (L.) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a highly destructive pest. The low tolerance for damaged fruit requires preventive insecticide treatments for a marketable crop.
Agee   +145 more
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Genetic diversity and identification of symbiotic community of Q Bemisia tabaci from Mediterranean countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Introduction: We investigated a) the genetic diversity and population structure, b) the secondary symbiotic bacterial community and c) the frequencies of target site mutations conferring resistance to pyrethroids and organophospates in Q Bemisia tabaci ...
Bourtzis, Kostas   +5 more
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Screening of Natural Wolbachia Infection in Aedes Caspius and Culex Pipiens as Potential Vectors of Arboviral Diseases in Shiraz, South of Iran [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System
Background: Mosquitoes transmit many diseases to humans, including malaria, dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika. Controlling mosquitoes with endosymbiont bacterium Wolbachia is a new approach in this field.
Narjes Moezi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Extracting few representative reconciliations with Host-Switches (Extended Abstract) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Phylogenetic tree reconciliation is the approach commonly used to in- vestigate the coevolution of sets of organisms such as hosts and symbionts. Given a phylogenetic tree for each such set, respectively denoted by H and S, together with a mapping φ of ...
Calamoneri, T.   +2 more
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The Genesis of Malaria: The Origin of Mosquitoes and Their Protistan Cargo, Plasmodium falciparum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Malaria is caused by the parasite belonging to the genus Plasmodium; however, creation biologists maintain this organism was not always parasitic. Plasmodium is probably a degenerate form of algae.
Gillen, Alan L., Sherwin, Frank
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Ensuring successful introduction of Wolbachia in natural populations of Aedes aegypti by means of feedback control

open access: yes, 2015
The control of the spread of dengue fever by introduction of the intracellular parasitic bacterium Wolbachia in populations of the vector Aedes aegypti, is presently one of the most promising tools for eliminating dengue, in the absence of an efficient ...
Aronna, M. Soledad   +3 more
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Learning from the past: the future of malaria in Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Graboyes, Melissa
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