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SUBMITTER: Asimakis ED
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7050614 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Asimakis Elias D ED Doudoumis Vangelis V Hadapad Ashok B AB Hire Ramesh S RS Batargias Costas C Niu Changying C Khan Mahfuza M Bourtzis Kostas K Tsiamis George G
BMC microbiology 20191224 Suppl 1
<h4>Background</h4>Various endosymbiotic bacteria, including Wolbachia of the Alphaproteobacteria, infect a wide range of insects and are capable of inducing reproductive abnormalities to their hosts such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), parthenogenesis, feminization and male-killing. These extended phenotypes can be potentially exploited in enhancing environmentally friendly methods, such as the sterile insect technique (SIT), for controlling natural populations of agricultural pests. The g ...[more]