Perplexing dynamics of Wolbachia proteins for cytoplasmic incompatibility [PDF]
PLoS Biology, 2022 The mechanism of symbiont-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) has been a long-standing mystery. A new study on Wolbachia’s Cif proteins in PLOS Biology provides supportive evidence for the “Host modification model,” although the alternative “Toxin ...
Toshiyuki Harumoto, Takema Fukatsu
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A Role for Maternal Factors in Suppressing Cytoplasmic Incompatibility [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Wolbachia are maternally transmitted bacterial endosymbionts, carried by approximately half of all insect species. Wolbachia prevalence in nature stems from manipulation of host reproduction to favor the success of infected females.
AJM Zehadee Momtaz +15 more
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Male-dependent resistance to Spiroplasma-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceCytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) caused by bacterial endosymbionts is an embryonic developmental failure between infected host males and uninfected females.
Marie Pollmann +9 more
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Algorithms for the quantitative Lock/Key model of cytoplasmic incompatibility [PDF]
Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 2020 Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) relates to the manipulation by the parasite Wolbachia of its host reproduction. Despite its widespread occurrence, the molecular basis of CI remains unclear and theoretical models have been proposed to understand the ...
Tiziana Calamoneri +4 more
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Wolbachia transinfections in Culex quinquefasciatus generate cytoplasmic incompatibility. [PDF]
Insect Mol Biol, 2020 AbstractCulex quinquefasciatus is an important mosquito vector of a number of viral and protozoan pathogens of humans and animals, and naturally carries the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis, strain wPip. Wolbachia are used in two distinct vector control strategies: firstly, population suppression caused by mating incompatibilities between mass‐released
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Highly transmissible cytoplasmic incompatibility by the extracellular insect symbiont Spiroplasma [PDF]
iScience, 2022 Summary: Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is a form of reproductive manipulation caused by maternally inherited endosymbionts infecting arthropods, like Wolbachia, whereby matings between infected males and uninfected females produce few or no offspring.
Marie Pollmann +8 more
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Should Symbionts Be Nice or Selfish? Antiviral Effects of Wolbachia Are Costly but Reproductive Parasitism Is Not. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 2015 Symbionts can have mutualistic effects that increase their host's fitness and/or parasitic effects that reduce it. Which of these strategies evolves depends in part on the balance of their costs and benefits to the symbiont.
Julien Martinez +5 more
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Wolbachia-induced unidirectional cytoplasmic incompatibility and speciation: mainland-island model. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 Bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are among the most common endosymbionts in the world. In many insect species these bacteria induce a sperm-egg incompatibility between the gametes of infected males and uninfected females, commonly called unidirectional ...
Arndt Telschow +4 more
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Wolbachia Infection and Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Drosophila Species [PDF]
Genetics, 1996 Abstract Forty-one stocks from 30 Drosophila species were surveyed for Wolbachia infection using PCR technology. D. sechellia and two strains of D. auraria were found to be infected and were tested for the expression of cytoplasmic incompatibility, along with D. ananassae and D.
Kostas Bourtzis +3 more
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Pangenomic analysis of Wolbachia provides insight into the evolution of host adaptation and cytoplasmic incompatibility factor genes [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionThe genus Wolbachia provides a typical example of intracellular bacteria that infect the germline of arthropods and filarial nematodes worldwide.
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