<italic toggle="yes">Wolbachia</italic> Influences the Maternal Transmission of the <italic toggle="yes">gypsy</italic> Endogenous Retrovirus in <named-content content-type="genus-species">Drosophila melanogaster</named-content>

ABSTRACT The endosymbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are present in most insects and are maternally transmitted through the germline. Moreover, these intracellular bacteria exert antiviral activity against insect RNA viruses, as in Drosophila melanogaster, which could explain the prevalence of...

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Main Authors: Franck Touret, François Guiguen, Christophe Terzian
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a321f2997c5e4b8fa90402da28a68f7f
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