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: endosymbiont of onchocercid nematodes and their vectors

RRS Manoj, MS Latrofa, S Epis, D Otranto - Parasites & vectors, 2021 - Springer
Background Wolbachia is an obligate intracellular maternally transmitted, gram-negative
bacterium which forms a spectrum of endosymbiotic relationships from parasitism to …

Still a Host of Hosts for Wolbachia: Analysis of Recent Data Suggests That 40% of Terrestrial Arthropod Species Are Infected

R Zug, P Hammerstein - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria that manipulate the reproduction of their arthropod hosts
in remarkable ways. They are predominantly transmitted vertically from mother to offspring …

Uncovering symbiont‐driven genetic diversity across N orth A merican pea aphids

JA Russell, S Weldon, AH Smith, KL Kim… - Molecular …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Heritable genetic variation is required for evolution, and while typically encoded within
nuclear and organellar genomes, several groups of invertebrates harbour heritable …

Infectious Speciation Revisited: Impact of Symbiont-Depletion on Female Fitness and Mating Behavior of Drosophila paulistorum

WJ Miller, L Ehrman, D Schneider - PLoS pathogens, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The neotropical Drosophila paulistorum superspecies, consisting of at least six
geographically overlapping but reproductively isolated semispecies, has been the object of …

Detection and Characterization of Wolbachia Infections in Natural Populations of Aphids: Is the Hidden Diversity Fully Unraveled?

AA Augustinos, D Santos-Garcia, E Dionyssopoulou… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Aphids are a serious threat to agriculture, despite being a rather small group of insects. The
about 4,000 species worldwide engage in highly interesting and complex relationships with …

An elusive endosymbiont: Does Wolbachia occur naturally in Aedes aegypti?

PA Ross, AG Callahan, Q Yang, M Jasper… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia are maternally inherited endosymbiotic bacteria found within many insect
species. Aedes mosquitoes experimentally infected with Wolbachia are being released into …

Wolbachia do not live by reproductive manipulation alone: infection polymorphism in Drosophila suzukii and D. subpulchrella

CA Hamm, DJ Begun, A Vo, CCR Smith… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Drosophila suzukii recently invaded North America and Europe. Populations in Hawaii,
California, New York and Nova Scotia are polymorphic for Wolbachia, typically with< 20 …

Diversification of Wolbachia Endosymbiont in the Culex pipiens Mosquito

CM Atyame, F Delsuc, N Pasteur… - … Biology and Evolution, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The α-proteobacteria Wolbachia are among the most common intracellular bacteria and
have recently emerged as important drivers of arthropod biology. Wolbachia commonly act …

Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in laboratory and natural populations of different species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina)

V Doudoumis, G Tsiamis, F Wamwiri, C Brelsfoard… - BMC microbiology, 2012 - Springer
Background Wolbachia is a genus of endosymbiotic α-Proteobacteria infecting a wide range
of arthropods and filarial nematodes. Wolbachia is able to induce reproductive abnormalities …