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The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia enhances the nonspecific resistance to insect pathogens and alters behavior of Drosophila melanogaster

D. Panteleev, I. Goryacheva, B. Andrianov, N. L. Reznik, O. Lazebny, A. Kulikov

2007.9.1RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS

DOI: 10.1134/s1022795407090153

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Females of D. melanogaster infected with Wolbachia are more resistant to the fungus Blauveria bassiana than uninfected females; infected females also exhibited changes in oviposition substrate preference.

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PANTELEEV, D., et al. The endosymbiotic bacterium wolbachia enhances the nonspecific resistance to insect pathogens and alters behavior of drosophila melanogaster. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF GENETICS, 2007, 43: 1066–1069.