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PLoS Biology, 2008 Wolbachia are vertically transmitted, obligatory intracellular bacteria that infect a great number of species of arthropods and nematodes. In insects, they are mainly known for disrupting the reproductive biology of their hosts in order to increase their
Luís Teixeira +2 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Draper is evolutionarily conserved across most insect species. Loss of Draper inhibits autophagy activation, delaying middle silk gland degradation in the silkworm during metamorphosis. Draper interacts with autophagy ‐ related protein 3 (ATG3) to orchestrate autophagosome formation—a process essential for silk gland degradation during the larval‐pupal
Shiyu Zou +9 more
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Coevolution of Drosophila melanogaster mtDNA and Wolbachia genotypes.
PLoS ONE, 2013 Maternally inherited microorganisms can influence the mtDNA pattern of variation in hosts. This influence is driven by selection among symbionts and can cause the frequency of mitochondrial variants in the population to eventually increase or decrease ...
Yury Ilinsky
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An age-of-allele test of neutrality for transposable element insertions [PDF]
, 2013 How natural selection acts to limit the proliferation of transposable elements (TEs) in genomes has been of interest to evolutionary biologists for many years.
Bergman, Casey M. +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Pesticides are used extensively in food production to maximize crop yields. However, neonicotinoid insecticides exert unintentional toxicity to honey bees (Apis mellifera) that may partially be associated with massive population declines referred to as ...
Brendan A. Daisley +8 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study reveals that specific genetic variations in gut‐residing Saccharomyces cerevisiae significantly extend healthspan and lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster. These mutants rejuvenate aged intestinal metabolism, upregulate mitochondrial proteins, and enhance energy pathways.
Liying Wang +11 more
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On the origin of the P-element invasion in Drosophila simulans
Mobile DNAThe horizontal transfer (HT) of the P-element is one of the best documented cases of the HT of a transposable element. The P-element invaded natural D. melanogaster populations between 1950 and 1980 following its HT from Drosophila willistoni, a species ...
Filip Wierzbicki +4 more
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The effects of recombination rate on the distribution and abundance of transposable elements [PDF]
, 2008 Transposable elements (TEs) often accumulate in regions of the genome with suppressed recombination. But it is unclear whether this pattern reflects a reduction in the efficacy of selection against deleterious insertions or a relaxation of ectopic ...
Charlesworth, Brian, Dolgin, Elie S.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Aphids release salivary protein GLD into plants, which induces ROS in the phloem. This leads to the intermolecular disulfide bonds formation among SEO proteins, promoting their transition from the dispersed state to the aggregated state. SEO can interact with CMV CP.
Huijuan Guo +7 more
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Design and construction of a new Drosophila species, D.synthetica, by synthetic regulatory evolution [PDF]
, 2011 Here, I merge the principles of synthetic biology^1,2^ and regulatory evolution^3-11^ to create a new species^12-15^ with a minimal set of known elements.
Eduardo Moreno
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