Wolbachia Infection among Fleas (Siphonaptera: Insecta) of Sverdlovsk Region and Khabarovsk Territory

Yury Yuryevich Ilinsky; Mariya Aleksandrovna Yudina; Ekaterina Alekseevna Kalmykova; Roman Andreyevich Bykov; Nelya Pavlovna Vysochina; Natalya Petrovna Vinarskaya; Ilya Kuzmich Zakharov

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Ecological Genetics ›› 2013, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (1) : 32 -35. DOI: 10.17816/ecogen11132-35

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Wolbachia Infection among Fleas (Siphonaptera: Insecta) of Sverdlovsk Region and Khabarovsk Territory

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Novosibirsk State University

Khabarovsk Antiplague Station

Omsk State Research Institute of Natural Foci Infections

Candidate of Biological Sciences, Laboratory of Populations Genetics, Novosibirsk State University, Department of Cytology and Genetics

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Postgraduate student, Laboratory of Populations Genetics

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Can. of Biological Sciences, Lab. of Arthropod-Borne Viral Infections

Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Head of the laboratory of Populations Genetics, Department of Cytology and Genetics

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Wolbachia are maternally inherited symbiotic bacteria that are widespread among arthropods and filarial nematode parasites. It has been found in all main insect orders although some of them are still insufficiently studied. We performed PCR-screening for 15 species, 252 samples of fleas (Siphonaptera), that had been collected in the Sverdlovsk region and Khabarovsk territory. Six new symbiotic associations of Wolbachia-Siphonaptera were found for the first time. On the basis of earlier published data and the results of the current study we estimate that a minimum of 500 out of 2000 species in the Siphonaptera order are infected with Wolbachia

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Wolbachia / Siphonaptera / Wolbachia / Siphonaptera / biodiversity / symbiosis / population

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Yury Yuryevich Ilinsky, Mariya Aleksandrovna Yudina, Ekaterina Alekseevna Kalmykova, Roman Andreyevich Bykov, Nelya Pavlovna Vysochina, Natalya Petrovna Vinarskaya, Ilya Kuzmich Zakharov. Wolbachia Infection among Fleas (Siphonaptera: Insecta) of Sverdlovsk Region and Khabarovsk Territory. Ecological Genetics, 2013, 11(1): 32-35 DOI:10.17816/ecogen11132-35

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