Evolutionary Ecology of Wolbachia Releases for Disease Control

PA Ross, M Turelli, AA Hoffmann - Annual review of genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic Alphaproteobacteria that can suppress insect-borne
diseases through decreasing host virus transmission (population replacement) or through …

Wolbachia strains for disease control: ecological and evolutionary considerations

AA Hoffmann, PA Ross, G Rašić - Evolutionary applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia are endosymbionts found in many insects with the potential to suppress
vectorborne diseases, particularly through interfering with pathogen transmission …

Wolbachia Infections in Aedes aegypti Differ Markedly in Their Response to Cyclical Heat Stress

PA Ross, I Wiwatanaratanabutr, JK Axford… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are currently being released for
arbovirus suppression around the world. Their potential to invade populations and persist …

Field evaluation of the establishment potential of wmelpop Wolbachia in Australia and Vietnam for dengue control

TH Nguyen, HL Nguyen, TY Nguyen, SN Vu, ND Tran… - Parasites & vectors, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background Introduced Wolbachia bacteria can influence the susceptibility of
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to arboviral infections as well as having detrimental effects on …

Genome-wide SNPs lead to strong signals of geographic structure and relatedness patterns in the major arbovirus vector, Aedes aegypti

G Rašić, I Filipović, AR Weeks, AA Hoffmann - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Genetic markers are widely used to understand the biology and population
dynamics of disease vectors, but often markers are limited in the resolution they provide. In …

Infertility and fecundity loss of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti hatched from quiescent eggs is expected to alter invasion dynamics

MJ Lau, PA Ross, AA Hoffmann - PLoS neglected tropical …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia shows viral blocking in its mosquito host, leading
to its use in arboviral disease control. Releases with Wolbachia strains w Mel and w AlbB …

[HTML][HTML] Fitness of wAlbB Wolbachia infection in Aedes aegypti: parameter estimates in an outcrossed background and potential for population invasion

JK Axford, PA Ross, HL Yeap… - The American journal …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wolbachia endosymbionts are potentially useful tools for suppressing disease transmission
by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes because Wolbachia can interfere with the transmission of …

Reduced competence to arboviruses following the sustainable invasion of Wolbachia into native Aedes aegypti from Southeastern Brazil

JSM Gesto, GS Ribeiro, MN Rocha, FBS Dias… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Field release of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti has emerged as a promising solution to
manage the transmission of dengue, Zika and chikungunya in endemic areas across the …

Considerations for mosquito microbiome research from the Mosquito Microbiome Consortium

N Dada, N Jupatanakul, G Minard, SM Short, J Akorli… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
In the past decade, there has been increasing interest in mosquito microbiome research,
leading to large amounts of data on different mosquito species, with various underlying …

Genome-wide SNPs reveal the drivers of gene flow in an urban population of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus

TL Schmidt, G Rašić, D Zhang, X Zheng… - PLOS Neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Aedes albopictus is a highly invasive disease vector with an expanding worldwide
distribution. Genetic assays using low to medium resolution markers have found little …