An efficient procedure for purification of the obligate intracellular Wolbachia pipientis and representative amplification of its genome by multiple displacement amplification
Résumé
procedure to representatively amplify Wolbachia genome by multiple displacement amplification from limited infected host tissue (0.2 g or 2 x 107 cell line). We obtained sufficient amounts (8 to 10 µg) of DNA of suitable quality for genomic studies with which we demonstrated that the amplified DNA contained all of the Wolbachia loci targeted. In addition, our data indicated that the genome of wRi strain, an obligatory endosymbiont of Drosophila simulans, shared similar overall architecture with its relative strain wMel.