High Incidence of Related Wolbachia across Unrelated Leaf-Mining Diptera
The maternally inherited endosymbiont, Wolbachia Tribulus pipientis, plays an important role in the ecology and evolution of many of its hosts by affecting host reproduction and fitness.Here, we investigated 13 dipteran leaf-mining species to characterize Wolbachia infections and the potential for this endosymbiont in biocontrol.Wolbachia infection