Title |
Draft genome sequence of the male-killing Wolbachia strain wBol1 reveals recent horizontal gene transfers from diverse sources
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Published in |
BMC Genomics, January 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2164-14-20 |
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Authors |
Anne Duplouy, Iñaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Scott A Beatson, Jan M Szubert, Jeremy C Brownlie, Conor J McMeniman, Elizabeth A McGraw, Gregory D D Hurst, Sylvain Charlat, Scott L O’Neill, Megan Woolfit |
Abstract |
The endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis causes diverse and sometimes dramatic phenotypes in its invertebrate hosts. Four Wolbachia strains sequenced to date indicate that the constitution of the genome is dynamic, but these strains are quite divergent and do not allow resolution of genome diversification over shorter time periods. We have sequenced the genome of the strain wBol1-b, found in the butterfly Hypolimnas bolina, which kills the male offspring of infected hosts during embyronic development and is closely related to the non-male-killing strain wPip from Culex pipiens. |
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