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The endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia in an insect cell line.
Endosymbiosis is an interdependent association between two species, in which one, typically microbial, partner lives within a host. Jonathan Eisen and colleagues describe the genome sequence of the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis, and discuss the insights that this provides into the ecology and evolution of endosymbiosis (see article). The cover shows a micrograph of Wolbachia (green) within a cell line isolated from the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus.
Image Credit: Cover image provided by Kelly Johnston and Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Citation: (2004) PLoS Biology Issue Image | Vol. 2(3) March 2004. PLoS Biol 2(3): ev02.i03. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pbio.v02.i03
Published: March 30, 2004
Copyright: © 2004 Johnston, Taylor. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Endosymbiosis is an interdependent association between two species, in which one, typically microbial, partner lives within a host. Jonathan Eisen and colleagues describe the genome sequence of the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis, and discuss the insights that this provides into the ecology and evolution of endosymbiosis (see article). The cover shows a micrograph of Wolbachia (green) within a cell line isolated from the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus.
Image Credit: Cover image provided by Kelly Johnston and Mark Taylor, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine