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- Title
Parasite infiltrates fruitfly research.
- Authors
Ainsworth, Claire
- Abstract
Focuses on a research in London, England that the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster are infected with a parasite, Wolbachia, that affects the flies' mutation. Discovery of an unidentified mutation that kills flies when combined with another mutation called chico; Possibility of Wolbachia to influence the results of Drosophila geneticist; Importance of the research paper in helping alert Drosophila researchers to the possibility of the presence of Wolbachia in any given stock.
- Subjects
DROSOPHILA melanogaster; DROSOPHILA; FRUIT flies; PARASITES; GENETIC mutation; BIOLOGICAL variation; BIOLOGY
- Publication
Nature, 2005, Vol 436, Issue 7047, p8
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/436008a