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Tracking the infection of flies

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Although it is known that Wolbachia — a bacterial genus present in 20 to 80 percent of all insects — is transmitted from female hosts to their offspring through their germ line, it has only been suspected that infectious transmission must occur between carriers and noncarriers without passing through any germ line. Now, using confocal microscopy, researchers at Princeton University in New Jersey have shown that Wolbachia introduced to a host eventually crosses several tissues to ultimately infect the germ line of flies. The investigators, led by Horacio M. Frydman of the...Read full article

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    Published: June 2006
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