Genomic Underpinnings of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: CIF Gene-Neighborhood Diversification Through Extensive Lateral Transfers and Recombination in Wolbachia. [PDF]
Genome Biol EvolCytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), a non-Mendelian genetic phenomenon, involves the manipulation of host reproduction by Wolbachia, a maternally transmitted alphaproteobacterium.
Tan Y, Aravind L, Zhang D.
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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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Interacting host modifier systems control Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite. [PDF]
Evol Lett, 2022 Many reproductive parasites such as Wolbachia spread within host populations by inducing cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI occurs when parasite-modified sperm fertilizes uninfected eggs.
Wybouw N, Mortier F, Bonte D.
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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.
Bo Liu +5 more
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Life and Death of Selfish Genes: Comparative Genomics Reveals the Dynamic Evolution of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility. [PDF]
Mol Biol Evol, 2021 Cytoplasmic incompatibility is a selfish reproductive manipulation induced by the endosymbiont Wolbachia in arthropods. In males Wolbachia modifies sperm, leading to embryonic mortality in crosses with Wolbachia-free females.
Martinez J +3 more
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Male Age and Wolbachia Dynamics: Investigating How Fast and Why Bacterial Densities and Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Strengths Vary. [PDF]
mBio, 2021 Wolbachia bacteria are the most common animal-associated endosymbionts due in large part to their manipulation of host reproduction. Many Wolbachia cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) that kills uninfected host eggs.
Shropshire JD, Hamant E, Cooper BS.
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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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Testing the potential contribution of Wolbachia to speciation when cytoplasmic incompatibility becomes associated with host-related reproductive isolation. [PDF]
Mol Ecol, 2022 Endosymbiontâinduced cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) may play an important role in arthropod speciation. However, whether CI consistently becomes associated or coupled with other hostârelated forms of reproductive isolation (RI) to impede the transfer ...
Bruzzese DJ +14 more
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A Wolbachia Deubiquitylating Enzyme Induces Cytoplasmic Incompatibility [PDF]
Nature Microbiology, 2017 Wolbachia are obligate intracellular bacteria1 that infect arthropods, including approximately two-thirds of insect species2. Wolbachia manipulate insect reproduction by enhancing their inheritance through the female germline.
J. Beckmann, J. Ronau, M. Hochstrasser
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Why antagonistic traits against cytoplasmic incompatibility are so elusive. [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 OPINION article Front. Microbiol., 31 March 2016Sec.
Ranjit Kumar Sahoo
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