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Can Wolbachia save the day?
- Source :
- Nature Reviews Microbiology. 16:396-396
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- This month’s Genome Watch highlights discoveries of high variability in the genes underlying cytoplasmic incompatibility among Wolbachia strains that help identify the best strains to use for the control of vector-borne diseases such as Zika virus and malaria.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Comparative genomics
Genetics
General Immunology and Microbiology
biology
Plasmodium falciparum
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Microbiology
Genome
Zika virus
03 medical and health sciences
030104 developmental biology
Infectious Diseases
parasitic diseases
medicine
Wolbachia
Gene
Cytoplasmic incompatibility
Malaria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17401534 and 17401526
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Reviews Microbiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........e7c434001f8a7e87bea317140548e350
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0021-4