The mosaic genome structure of the Wolbachia wRi strain infecting Drosophila simulans.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on March 23, 2009

Authors

Lisa Klasson1, Joakim Westberg, Panagiotis Sapountzis, Kristina Näslund, Ylva Lutnaes, Alistair C Darby, Zoe Veneti, Lanming Chen, Henk R Braig, Roger Garrett, Kostas Bourtzis, Siv G E Andersson

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1: Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, SE-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden.

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