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Population structure of Wolbachia and cytoplasmic introgression in a complex of mosquito species

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Dumas, Emilie | Atyame Nten, Célestine | Milesi, Pascal | Fonseca, Dina | Shaikevich, Elena | Unal, Sandra | Makoundou, Patrick | Weill, Mylene | Duron, Olivier

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International audience. The maternally inherited bacterium Wolbachia often acts as a subtle parasite that manipulates insect reproduction, resulting potentially in reproductive isolation between host populations. Whilst distinct Wolbachia strains are documented in a group of evolutionarily closely related mosquitoes known as the Culex pipiens complex, their impact on mosquito population genetics remains unclear. To this aim, we developed a PCR-RFLP test that discriminates the five known Wolbachia groups found in this host complex. We further examined the Wolbachia genetic diversity, the variability in the coinherited host mitochondria and their partitioning among members of the Cx. pipiens complex, in order to assess the impact of Wolbachia on host population structure.

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