Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

Wolbachia is one of the most abundant endosymbionts on earth, with a wide distribution
especially in arthropods. Effective maternal transmission and the induction of various …

The most common intracellular symbiont on the planet—Wolbachia pipientis—is infamous
largely for the reproductive manipulations induced in its host. However, more recent …

Abstract Bacterial endosymbionts, particularly Wolbachia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae),
Rickettsia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae), and Cardinium (Bacteroidales: Bacteroidaceae) …

The Lepidoptera is one of the most widespread and recognisable insect orders. Due to their
remarkable diversity, economic and ecological importance, moths and butterflies have been …

Background Evolutionary processes can cause strong spatial genetic signatures, such as
local loss of genetic diversity, or conflicting histories from mitochondrial versus nuclear …

Wolbachia is a maternally inherited obligate endosymbiont that can induce a wide spectrum
of effects in its host, ranging from mutualism to reproductive parasitism. At the genomic level …

Philaenus spumarius is a cosmopolitan species that has become a major threat to European
agriculture being recognized as the main vector of the introduced plant pathogen Xylella …

Bacterial endosymbionts of aquatic invertebrates remain poorly studied. This is at least
partly due to a lack of suitable techniques and primers for their identification. We designed a …

Endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria are known to influence the host physiology, microbiota
composition, and dissemination of pathogens. We surveyed a population of Tabanus …