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HERTIG, Marshall (1893 – 1978)

1893 – 1978

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1924 CE

#10943

Studies on Rickettsia-like micro-organisms in insects.

Hertig and Wolbach first described the parasitic microbe Wolbachia in the common house mosquito in 1924. In 1936 Hertig formally described the species as Wolbachia pipientis. Since then the genus Wolbachia has become …