[HTML][HTML] The cellular lives of Wolbachia

J Porter, W Sullivan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Wolbachia are successful Gram-negative bacterial endosymbionts, globally infecting a large
fraction of arthropod species and filarial nematodes. Efficient vertical transmission, the …

Cloud computing for genomic data analysis and collaboration

B Langmead, A Nellore - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing has made major strides in the past decade. Studies based on
large sequencing data sets are growing in number, and public archives for raw sequencing …

[HTML][HTML] Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

DP LePage, JA Metcalf, SR Bordenstein, J On… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The genus Wolbachia is an archetype of maternally inherited intracellular bacteria that infect
the germline of numerous invertebrate species worldwide. They can selfishly alter arthropod …

Islands of retroelements are major components of Drosophila centromeres

CH Chang, A Chavan, J Palladino, X Wei… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Centromeres are essential chromosomal regions that mediate kinetochore assembly and
spindle attachments during cell division. Despite their functional conservation, centromeres …

Evolutionary Genetics of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Genes cifA and cifB in Prophage WO of Wolbachia

ARI Lindsey, DW Rice, SR Bordenstein… - Genome biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia manipulates arthropod reproduction to facilitate its
maternal spread through host populations. The most common manipulation is cytoplasmic …

One prophage WO gene rescues cytoplasmic incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster

JD Shropshire, J On, EM Layton… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Wolbachia are maternally inherited, intracellular bacteria at the forefront of vector control
efforts to curb arbovirus transmission. In international field trials, the cytoplasmic …

Two-By-One model of cytoplasmic incompatibility: Synthetic recapitulation by transgenic expression of cifA and cifB in Drosophila

JD Shropshire, SR Bordenstein - PLoS genetics, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that infect arthropod species worldwide and are
deployed in vector control to curb arboviral spread using cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI …

Horizontal transmission of intracellular insect symbionts via plants

E Chrostek, K Pelz-Stelinski, GDD Hurst… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Experimental evidence is accumulating that endosymbionts of phytophagous insects may
transmit horizontally via plants. Intracellular symbionts known for manipulating insect …

Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae

SR Bordenstein, SR Bordenstein - PLoS genetics, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are the most common obligate, intracellular bacteria in animals. They exist
worldwide in arthropod and nematode hosts in which they commonly act as reproductive …

Unique transposon landscapes are pervasive across Drosophila melanogaster genomes

R Rahman, G Chirn, A Kanodia… - Nucleic acids …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
To understand how transposon landscapes (TLs) vary across animal genomes, we describe
a new method called the Transposon Insertion and Depletion AnaLyzer (TIDAL) and a …