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Maintaining Wolbachia in Cell-free Medium
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Screening mollusks for Wolbachia infection
M Schilthuizen1, E Gittenberger
1Institute for Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
|May 8, 1998
Abstract:
We screened 38 species of mollusks for infection by Wolbachia, a bacterium that is a common endosymbiont in arthropods, where it induces alterations in reproduction. Using a PCR assay, we could not detect the symbiont in any of the samples, indicating that, in mollusks, it might be absent.
