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Wolbachia

Collection sites, home-pages

• Wolbachia home page (NSF)
• Australian Wolbachia home page and data base

Fact sheets, consumer guides, general information

• Brief description of Wolbachia (NSF)
• What Wolbachia can do to insects (ScienceNewsOnline) (don't take the science fiction part for real!)
• Wolbachia, widow maker (Nature Science Update)
• Bacteria can alter evolution of another species (UniSci)
• Wolbachia helps sterile insects reproduce prevent wasps to mate (Uni Berkeley)
• Bacteria spurs speciation (Scientific American)
• Wolbachia inside parasitic worms cause river blindness (IRINnews.org)
• Bacteria, not worms, cause river blindness (CBC news)

Lectures

• Evolutionary interactions of Wolbachia and their insect hosts (DeWayne Shoemaker)
• Asexual reproduction in plants and animals (Kimball Biology Papers)

Scientific papers

• Wolbachia: evolutionary novelty in a rickettsial bacteria (BioMedCentral)
• Wolbachia  in leaf cutting ants may induce male killing or incompatible matings (J. Evol. Biol.) PDF file

Scientific links

• Genus nomenclature (JP Euzeby)

The content of this page is copyright of the Virtual Museum of Bacteria and was written by Dr. T. M. Wassenaar (curator), with support of the Foundation for Bacteriology (Dr. M.J. Blaser, President). If you have suggestions for links to add to this page, please contact us at curator@bacteriamuseum.org

Last modified: 10 Feb 2003

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