Maternally Inherited Bacterium Causing Female Bias in the St. Petersburg Population of Adalia bipunctata Does Not Belong to the Genus Rickettsia

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1303-1306

  Zakharov, I A ^a   Hurst, G D D ^b   Chernysheva, N E ^a   Majerus, M E N ^b  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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