Wolbachia diversity and cytoplasmic incompatibility patterns in Culex pipiens populations in Turkey

Parasites & Vectors

Table 2 Crossing relationships between lines from Turkey (Tek wPip-I & Tek wPip-II) and reference laboratory Wolbachia strains

	Males	Tek wPip-I	Tek wPip-II	Istanbul wPip-IV	Slab wPip-III	LaVar wPip-II	MaClo wPip-III
	Mod	vi	ix	viii
Females	*Resc*
Tek I	2		C (24)	IC (24)	C (9)	C (17)	C (34)
Tek II	2	C (26)		IC (32)	C (26)	C (20)	C (14)
Istanbul	3	IC (58)	IC (36)		IC (34)^a	IC (40) ^a	C (31)^a
Slab		IC (32)	C (27)	C (33)^a		IC (30)^a	IC (99)^a
LaVar		C (15)	IC (33)	IC (26) ^a	C (8)^a		C (10) ^a
MaClo		C (18)	C (20)	IC (53)^a	C (43)^a	C(36)^a

^aData taken from Duron et al. [10]
Note: Reciprocal crosses between Tek wPip-I, Tek wPip-II, Istanbul wPip-IV lines have been performed to identify natural CI patterns induced by these strains in the region. Additional reciprocal crosses between Turkish lines and 4 reference laboratory lines [LaVar (wPip-II), MaClo and Slab (wPip-III) and Istanbul (wPip-IV)] have been performed to define the mod-resc functions of Tek wPip-I and Tek wPip-II isofemale lines and to compare them to previously defined ones by Atyame et al. [7]. Crosses were classified as either compatible (C, raft hatching > 90%) or incompatible (IC, raft hatching = 0–10%). Bidirectionally incompatible crosses are shown in bold. The number of egg-rafts collected for each cross is indicated in parentheses

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