TSIAMIS, George
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Presence of extensive Wolbachia symbiont insertions discovered in the genome of its host Glossina morsitans morsitans.PLoS Negl. Trop. Dis., 8, doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002728, 2014.Order of authorship in the original publication: Brelsfoard, Tsiamis, Falchetto....The authors suggested that infection by Wolbachia may give a reproductive advantage to the fly that carries the parasite causing Sleeping Sickness and nagana. Digital edition avalable from PubMedCentral PMCID: PMC3998919. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Rickettsiales › Wolbachia, BIOLOGY › MOLECULAR BIOLOGY › Genomics › Pathogenomics, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tsetse Fly-Borne Diseases › Sleeping Sickness (African Trypanosomiasis), PARASITOLOGY › Molecular Parasitology, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology |