Wolbachia are successful Gram-negative bacterial endosymbionts, globally infecting a large
fraction of arthropod species and filarial nematodes. Efficient vertical transmission, the …

Haematophagous arthropods, including mosquitoes, ticks, flies, triatomine bugs and lice
(here referred to as vectors), are involved in the transmission of various pathogens to …

Bacterial symbionts, such as Wolbachia species, can manipulate the sexual development
and reproduction of their insect hosts. For example, Wolbachia infection induces male …

Most heritable information in eukaryotic cells is encoded in the nuclear genome, with
inheritance patterns following classic Mendelian segregation. Genomes residing in the …

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 …

Simple Summary To counter plant chemical defenses and exposure to agrochemicals,
herbivorous insects have developed several adaptive strategies to guard against the …

Training the future synthetic biology workforce requires the opportunity for students to be
exposed to biotechnology concepts and activities in secondary education. Detecting …

Highlights•Wolbachia-based incompatible insect technique (IIT) is effective for mosquito-
borne diseases.•Wolbachia-based approaches are proposed for the protection of plants …

Recent discoveries of basal extracellular Rickettsiales have illuminated divergent
evolutionary paths to host dependency in later-evolving lineages. Family Rickettsiaceae …

Bacterial endosymbionts induce dramatic phenotypes in their arthropod hosts, including
cytoplasmic incompatibility, feminization, parthenogenesis, male killing, parasitoid defense …