Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: a centennial review

R Kaur, JD Shropshire, KL Cross, B Leigh… - Cell host & …, 2021 - cell.com
The most widespread intracellular bacteria in the animal kingdom are maternally inherited
endosymbionts of the genus Wolbachia. Their prevalence in arthropods and nematodes …

Vector biology meets disease control: using basic research to fight vector-borne diseases

WR Shaw, F Catteruccia - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Human pathogens that are transmitted by insects are a global problem, particularly those
vectored by mosquitoes; for example, malaria parasites transmitted by Anopheles species …

Symbiont-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility: what have we learned in 50 years?

JD Shropshire, B Leigh, SR Bordenstein - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is the most common symbiont-induced reproductive
manipulation. Specifically, symbiont-induced sperm modifications cause catastrophic mitotic …

Wolbachia as translational science: controlling mosquito-borne pathogens

EP Caragata, HLC Dutra, PHF Sucupira… - Trends in …, 2021 - cell.com
In this review we examine how exploiting the Wolbachia–mosquito relationship has become
an increasingly popular strategy for controlling arbovirus transmission. Field deployments of …

Life and death of selfish genes: comparative genomics reveals the dynamic evolution of cytoplasmic incompatibility

J Martinez, L Klasson, JJ Welch… - Molecular Biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cytoplasmic incompatibility is a selfish reproductive manipulation induced by the
endosymbiont Wolbachia in arthropods. In males Wolbachia modifies sperm, leading to …

Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project

E Vancaester, M Blaxter - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence all described terrestrial and
aquatic eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland. Reference genome sequences are …

Paternal transmission of the Wolbachia CidB toxin underlies cytoplasmic incompatibility

B Horard, K Terretaz, AS Gosselin-Grenet, H Sobry… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Wolbachia are widespread endosymbiotic bacteria that manipulate the reproduction of
arthropods through a diversity of cellular mechanisms. In cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), a …

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 …

The toxin–antidote model of cytoplasmic incompatibility: genetics and evolutionary implications

JF Beckmann, M Bonneau, H Chen, M Hochstrasser… - Trends in Genetics, 2019 - cell.com
Wolbachia bacteria inhabit the cells of about half of all arthropod species, an unparalleled
success stemming in large part from selfish invasive strategies. Cytoplasmic incompatibility …

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 …