Endosymbiosis: The Remarkable Healing Powers of Wolbachia.
Wolbachia, a maternally transmitted bacterium globally present in arthropods, favors its own transmission by producing dramatic changes in host reproduction. Insight into the underlying molecular and cellular mechanisms comes from the identification of the Wolbachia effector protein TomO, which maintains host germline stem cells in an undifferentiated state.
Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95066, USA. Electronic address: wtsulliv@ucsc.edu.
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D000818:Animals; D001181:Arthropods; D005854:Germ Cells; D012098:Reproduction; D013559:Symbiosis; D020577:Wolbachia