Biological Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases: The Potential of Wolbachia-Based Interventions in an IVM Framework

Figure 4

Wolbachia in arthropods. (Modified from Russell & Steiner 2012, Myrmecological News Journal [57]). (a) Graph illustrating Wolbachia-infected (Blue shaded portion) and Wolbachia-uninfected (white portion) proportions by host taxon. (b) Histogram highlighting the frequencies Wolbachia infection of some dipteral families. The asterisk () indicates the recent discovery of native Wolbachia within the Anopheles genus.

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