The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia enhances the nonspecific resistance to insect pathogens and alters behavior of Drosophila melanogaster

Russian Journal of Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1066-1069

  Panteleev, D Yu ^a   Goryacheva, I I ^a   Andrianov, B V ^a   Reznik, N L ^a   Lazebny, O E ^b   Kulikov, A M ^b  

^a VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b KOL TSOV INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASSIANA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 34848841168     PISSN: 10227954     EISSN: 16083369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1022795407090153     Document Type: Article

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