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The impact of endosymbionts on the evolution of host sex-determination mechanisms

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ISsaga is an ensemble of web-based methods for high throughput identification and semi-automatic annotation of insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes

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Remarkable Abundance and Evolution of Mobile Group II Introns in Wolbachia Bacterial Endosymbionts

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Comparative analysis of Caulobacter chromosome replication origins

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Combined ivermectin and doxycycline treatment has microfilaricidal and adulticidal activity against Dirofilaria immitis in experimentally infected dogs

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Molecular identification of Wolbachia from the filarial nematode Mansonella perstans

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Parasitism and Mutualism in Wolbachia: What the Phylogenomic Trees Can and Cannot Say

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Genome Evolution of Wolbachia Strain wPip from the Culex pipiens Group

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Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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