Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10767825 | Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Wolbachia are maternally inherited intracellular α-proteobacteria that infect a wide range of arthropods. They are associated with a number of different reproductive phenotypes in arthropods and nematodes. In isopod crustacean, Wolbachia are responsible for feminization of genetic males in many species, and for cytoplasmic incompatibility in two species. In this paper, we report the first detection of phage WO from Wolbachia infecting terrestrial isopods. All Wolbachia strains tested in this study were infected with phage WO. Based on the orf7 phage sequence, we identified three different phage sequences in four Wolbachia strains. The phage of Wolbachia infecting Armadillidium vulgare seems to be not active, unlike other phages WO previously described in arthropods.
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Authors
Christine Braquart-Varnier, Pierre Grève, Christine Félix, Gilbert Martin,