DNA barcoding mosquitoes: advice for potential prospectors

NW Beebe - Parasitology, 2018 - cambridge.org
Mosquitoes' importance as vectors of pathogens that drive disease underscores the
importance of precise and comparable methods of taxa identification among their species …

Wolbachia pipientis Associated With Tephritid Fruit Fly Pests: From Basic Research to Applications

M Mateos, H Martinez Montoya… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Members of the true fruit flies (family Tephritidae) are among the most serious agricultural
pests worldwide, whose control and management demands large and costly international …

Rapid global spread of wRi-like Wolbachia across multiple Drosophila

M Turelli, BS Cooper, KM Richardson, PS Ginsberg… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Maternally transmitted Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Cardinium bacteria are
common in insects [1], but their interspecific spread is poorly understood. Endosymbionts …

Wolbachia Acquisition by Drosophila yakuba-Clade Hosts and Transfer of Incompatibility Loci Between Distantly Related Wolbachia

BS Cooper, D Vanderpool, WR Conner, DR Matute… - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Maternally transmitted Wolbachia infect about half of insect species, yet the predominant
mode (s) of Wolbachia acquisition remains uncertain. Species-specific associations could …

Loss of cytoplasmic incompatibility and minimal fecundity effects explain relatively low Wolbachia frequencies in Drosophila mauritiana

MK Meany, WR Conner, SV Richter, JA Bailey… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Maternally transmitted Wolbachia bacteria infect about half of all insect species. Many
Wolbachia cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and reduced egg hatch when uninfected …

The global impact of Wolbachia on mitochondrial diversity and evolution

M Cariou, L Duret, S Charlat - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The spread of maternally inherited microorganisms, such as Wolbachia bacteria, can induce
indirect selective sweeps on host mitochondria, to which they are linked within the …

Experimental evidence that thermal selection shapes mitochondrial genome evolution

Z Lajbner, R Pnini, MF Camus, J Miller, DK Dowling - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Mitochondria are essential organelles, found within eukaryotic cells, which contain their own
DNA. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has traditionally been used in population genetic and …

Large scale genome reconstructions illuminate Wolbachia evolution

M Scholz, D Albanese, K Tuohy, C Donati… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Wolbachia is an iconic example of a successful intracellular bacterium. Despite its
importance as a manipulator of invertebrate biology, its evolutionary dynamics have been …

Male Age and Wolbachia Dynamics: Investigating How Fast and Why Bacterial Densities and Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Strengths Vary

JD Shropshire, E Hamant, BS Cooper - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Endosymbionts can influence host reproduction and fitness to favor their maternal
transmission. For example, endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria often cause cytoplasmic …

Testing the potential contribution of Wolbachia to speciation when cytoplasmic incompatibility becomes associated with host‐related reproductive isolation

DJ Bruzzese, H Schuler, TM Wolfe… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Endosymbiont‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) may play an important role in
arthropod speciation. However, whether CI consistently becomes associated or coupled with …