Wolbachia Symbiont Infections Induce Strong Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans

Uzma Alam; Jan Medlock; Corey Brelsfoard; Roshan Pais; Claudia Lohs; Séverine Balmand; Jozef Carnogursky; Abdelaziz Heddi; Peter Takac; Alison Galvani; Serap Aksoy

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1002415

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Wolbachia Symbiont Infections Induce Strong Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans

Uzma Alam,

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Jan Medlock,

Current address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Corey Brelsfoard,

Current address: Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Roshan Pais,

Current address: Department of Immunology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut, Farmington, United States of America

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Claudia Lohs,

Current address: Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Séverine Balmand,

Affiliation INSA-Lyon, UMR203 BF2I, INRA, Biologie Fonctionnelle Insectes et Interactions, Bat. Louis-Pasteur, Villeurbanne, France
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Jozef Carnogursky,

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Abdelaziz Heddi,

Affiliation INSA-Lyon, UMR203 BF2I, INRA, Biologie Fonctionnelle Insectes et Interactions, Bat. Louis-Pasteur, Villeurbanne, France
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Peter Takac,

Affiliation Institute of Zoology, Section of Molecular and Applied Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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Alison Galvani,

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Serap Aksoy

* E-mail: Serap.Aksoy@yale.edu

Affiliation Yale University, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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Wolbachia Symbiont Infections Induce Strong Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans

Uzma Alam,
Jan Medlock,
Corey Brelsfoard,
Roshan Pais,
Claudia Lohs,
Séverine Balmand,
Jozef Carnogursky,
Abdelaziz Heddi,
Peter Takac,
Alison Galvani

Published: December 8, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1002415

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