Sequence of a symbiont
, the obligate symbiont of the tsetse fly has been sequenced.
Sep 8, 2002
Tsetse flies, the vectors of African trypanosomes, feed exclusively on blood and require intracellular microorganisms to provide additional nutrients. In an Advanced Online Publication in
The Wigglesworthia genome consists of a single chromosome of almost 700 kb and a small plasmid