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Wolbachia pipientis should not be split into multiple species: A response to Ramírez-Puebla et al., “Species in Wolbachia? Proposal for the designation of ‘Candidatus Wolbachia bourtzisii’, ‘Candidatus Wolbachia onchocercicola’, ‘Candidatus Wolbachia blaxteri’, ‘Candidatus Wolbachia brugii’, ‘Candidatus Wolbachia taylori’, ‘Candidatus Wolbachia collembolicola’ and ‘Candidatus Wolbachia multihospitum’ for the different species within Wolbachia supergroups”

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Acknowledgements

Wolbachia work in our labs is supported by grants NSF IOS 1456545 to ILGN, NSF IOS 1456778 to SRB, NIH R21HD086833 to SRB, NIH NIAID R01AI116636 to JLR, NSF DEB DDIG 1501227 to ARIL, and a Robert and Peggy van den Bosch Memorial Scholarship in Biological Control to ARIL.

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