Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 17, 2002

Authors

Natsuko Kondo1, Naruo Nikoh, Nobuyuki Ijichi, Masakazu Shimada, Takema Fukatsu

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Systems Science (Biology), and Department of Biological Science at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan. t-fukatsu@aist.go.jp

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