BIOL 2053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Cytoplasmic Incompatibility, Wolbachia, Biological Pest Control
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Infects 4 of all insect species vertical transmission common soils . mutualists and parasites - depending on environment. Naturally low densities have few effects but ingesting in high density can can have pathogenic effects be manipulated for biocontrol. Introduce pathogenic species to create higher because densities which is you cant just feed it tricky to them . Needs to be in germline for vertical transmission. Insect : cytoplasmic incompatibility . sperm cant fusion but find egg so mating occurs doesnt. Reduced population she due to ineffectual mating (2) pathogen. Enhances mosquitos immunity by competing for lipids so other microbes dont survive: microbes. As1 strain name out symbiont of mosquitos modified to release protein. Release to midgut field into t prevents parasites from traversing the gut cant enter salivary gland , cant. Exploiting vector - borne diseases: zika virus infects tdestroys brain cells in developing fetuses. It breaks down rapidly dividing is for this reason being used in cancer research.
