Screening mollusks for Wolbachia infection.
We screened 38 species of mollusks for infection by Wolbachia, a bacterium that is a common endosymbiont in arthropods, where it induces alterations in reproduction. Using a PCR assay, we could not detect the symbiont in any of the samples, indicating that, in mollusks, it might be absent.
Schilthuizen
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Institute for Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Gittenberger
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D000818:Animals; D008974:Mollusca / Q000382:microbiology*; D012287:Rickettsiaceae