title: Screening mollusks for Wolbachia infection.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schilthuizen
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gittenberger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D008974:Mollusca / Q000382:microbiology*; D012287:Rickettsiaceae