Convergent Aedes and Drosophila CidB interactomes suggest cytoplasmic incompatibility targets are conserved

SO Oladipupo, JD Carroll, JF Beckmann - Insect Biochemistry and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wolbachia-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is a conditional embryonic lethality
induced when Wolbachia-modified sperm fertilizes an uninfected egg. The Wolbachia …

[HTML][HTML] Harnessing Wolbachia cytoplasmic incompatibility alleles for confined gene drive: A modeling study

J Li, J Champer - PLoS Genetics, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are maternally-inherited bacteria, which can spread rapidly in populations by
manipulating reproduction. cifA and cifB are genes found in Wolbachia phage that are …

[HTML][HTML] 共生菌Wolbachia在宿主中诱导表达胞质不相容因子的研究进展

李文领, 肖云杰, 杨海涛, 王泽方 - 微生物学通报, 2023 - wswxtb.ijournals.cn
沃尔巴克氏体(Wolbachia) 作为节肢动物的胞内共生菌, 可以引起宿主产生雌性化, 孤雌生殖,
杀雄和胞质不相容性(cytoplasmic incompatibility, CI) 4 种生殖表型. 其中CI 是最常见的现象 …

[HTML][HTML] Ability of a selfish B chromosome to evade genome elimination in the jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis

H Lee, P Seo, S Teklay, E Yuguchi, ED Benetta… - Heredity, 2023 - nature.com
B chromosomes are non-essential, extra chromosomes that can exhibit transmission-
enhancing behaviors, including meiotic drive, mitotic drive, and induction of genome …

Transinfected Wolbachia strains induce a complex of cytoplasmic incompatibility phenotypes: Roles of CI factor genes

J Li, B Dong, Y Zhong, ZX Li - Environmental Microbiology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia can modulate the reproductive development of their hosts in multiple modes, and
cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is the most well‐studied phenotype. The whitefly Bemisia …

Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia-mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila spermatogenesis

W Dou, B Sun, Y Miao, D Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wolbachia are the most widely distributed intracellular bacteria, and their most common
effect on host phenotype is cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). A variety of models have been …

Making waves: Comparative analysis of gene drive spread characteristics in a continuous space model

M Pan, J Champer - Molecular Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With their ability to rapidly increase in frequency, gene drives can be used to modify or
suppress target populations after an initial release of drive individuals. Recent advances …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of Wolbachia reproductive and nutritional mutualism: insights from the genomes of two novel strains that double infect the pollinator of dioecious …

W Liu, X Xia, AA Hoffmann, Y Ding, JC Fang, H Yu - BMC genomics, 2023 - Springer
Wolbachia is a genus of maternally inherited endosymbionts that can affect reproduction of
their hosts and influence metabolic processes. The pollinator, Valisia javana, is common in …

[HTML][HTML] Rapid turnover of pathogen-blocking Wolbachia and their incompatibility loci

JD Shropshire, WR Conner, D Vanderpool… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
At least half of all insect species carry maternally inherited Wolbachia alphaproteobacteria,
making Wolbachia the most common endosymbionts in nature. Wolbachia spread to high …

Using Baker's Yeast to Determine Functions of Novel Wolbachia (and Other Prokaryotic) Effectors

RO Murphy, JF Beckmann - Wolbachia: Methods and Protocols, 2023 - Springer
Yeasts are single-celled eukaryotic organisms classified as fungi, mostly in the phylum
Ascomycota. Of about 1500 named species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as …