Comparative genomics suggests an independent origin of cytoplasmic incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii.
Penz T, Schmitz-Esser S, Kelly SE, Cass BN, Müller A, Woyke T, Malfatti SA, Hunter MS, Horn M.
Penz T, et al.
PLoS Genet. 2012;8(10):e1003012. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003012. Epub 2012 Oct 25.
PLoS Genet. 2012.
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CI symbionts have profound impacts on host genetic structure and ecology and may lead to speciation and the rapid evolution of sex determination systems. Cardinium hertigii, a member of the Bacteroidetes and symbiont of the parasitic wasp Encarsia pergandiella, is t …
CI symbionts have profound impacts on host genetic structure and ecology and may lead to speciation and the rapid evolution of sex determina …