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Insight into the Transmission Biology and Species-Specific Functional Capabilities of Tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) Obligate Symbiont Wigglesworthia [PDF]

mBio, 2012
Ancient endosymbionts have been associated with extreme genome structural stability with little differentiation in gene inventory between sister species.
Akman, Akman, Altschul, Aravind, Attardo, Aziz, Bailly, Berriman, Buchner, Chen, Cheng, Clark, Dale, Darling, Degnan, Dong, Garbe, Gil, Gil, Glasner, Harley, Harrison, Kanehisa, Lai, Latorre, Lovett, Ma, McCutcheon, Michaels, Misra, Moloo, Moloo, Moran, Moran, Moran, Needleman, Nogge, Nyholm, O’Neill, Pais, Papafotiou, Pearson, Phadtare, Pittard, Rajan, Rio, Rissman, Sabree, Serres, Shigenobu, Snyder, Stoll, Tamas, Toh, Tracy, Van Ham, Weiss, Weiss, Wernegreen, Wernegreen, Wilcox, Wu   +61 more
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Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia [PDF]

Microbiology, 2003
Author Posting. © Society for General Mircobiology, 2003. This article is posted here by permission of Society for General Mircobiology for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Microbiology 149 (2003): 2585-2596,
Abbot, Akashi, Akashi, Akashi, Akman, Aksoy, Andersson, Andersson, Baumann, Baumann, Bernardi, Birdsell, Blattner, Bulmer, Charles, Clark, Clark, Clark, D'Onofrio, de Miranda, Foster, Francino, Funk, Greenacre, Heddi, Kreitman, Lafay, Lai, Ma, Maddison, McInerney, McInerney, Mira, Moran, Moran, Nogge, Ochman, Ohama, Palacios, Powell, Rocha, Sandström, Sharp, Sharp, Shigenobu, Singer, Sokal, Srivastava, Sueoka, Swofford, van Ham, Wernegreen, Wernegreen, Wernegreen, Wernegreen, Wright, Yang   +56 more
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Into the Wild: Parallel Transcriptomics of the Tsetse-Wigglesworthia Mutualism within Kenyan Populations [PDF]

Genome Biology and Evolution, 2017
Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) have medical significance as the obligate vectors of African trypanosomes. In addition, tsetse harbor a simple gut microbiota.
Munoz, Miguel M, Pollio, Adam R, Rio, Rita V M, White, Hunter L   +3 more
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Microbe Profile: <i>Wigglesworthia glossinidia</i>: the tsetse fly's significant other. [PDF]

Microbiology (Reading), 2022
Wigglesworthia glossinidia is an obligate, maternally transmitted endosymbiont of tsetse flies. The ancient association between these two organisms accounts for many of their unique physiological adaptations. Similar to other obligate mutualists,
Weiss BL, Rio RVM, Aksoy S.
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Draft genome sequence of <i>Wigglesworthia glossinidia</i> "palpalis gambiensis" isolate. [PDF]

Microbiol Resour Announc
The 0.719 Mb genome of the tsetse endosymbiont, Wigglesworthia glossinidia, from Glossina palpalis gambiensis is presented. This Wigglesworthia genome retains 611 protein-coding sequences and a 25.3% GC content. A cryptic plasmid is conserved, between Wigglesworthia isolates, suggesting functional significance.
Spencer N, Santee M, Wetherhold A, Rio RVM.   +3 more
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“Wigglesworthia morsitans” Folate (Vitamin B ₉ ) Biosynthesis Contributes to Tsetse Host Fitness [PDF]

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2015
ABSTRACT Closely related ancient endosymbionts may retain minor genomic distinctions through evolutionary time, yet the biological relevance of these small pockets of unique loci remains unknown. The tsetse fly (Diptera: Glossinidae), the sole vector of lethal African trypanosomes ( Trypanosoma spp ...
Anna K, Snyder, Rita V M, Rio
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Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia : transcriptomic and metabolomic landscapes reveal highly integrated physiological networks [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017
Insects with restricted diets rely on obligate microbes to fulfil nutritional requirements essential for biological function. Tsetse flies, vectors of African trypanosome parasites, feed exclusively on vertebrate blood and harbour the obligate endosymbiont Wigglesworthia glossinidia. Without
XiaoLi Bing, Geoffrey M. Attardo, Aurelien Vigneron, Emre Aksoy, Francesca Scolari, Anna Malacrida, Brian L. Weiss, Serap Aksoy   +7 more
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Interactions between mutualist Wigglesworthia and tsetse peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP-LB) influence trypanosome transmission [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009
Tsetse flies, the sole vectors of African trypanosomes, have coevolved with mutualistic endosymbiont Wigglesworthia glossinidiae . Elimination of Wigglesworthia renders tsetse sterile and increases their trypanosome infection susceptibility.
Jingwen, Wang, Yineng, Wu, Guangxiao, Yang, Serap, Aksoy   +3 more
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Comparative gene expression of Wigglesworthia inhabiting non-infected and Trypanosoma brucei gambiense-infected Glossina palpalis gambiensis flies [PDF]

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014
Tsetse flies (Glossina sp.) that transmit trypanosomes causing human (and animal) African trypanosomiasis (HAT and AAT, respectively) harbor symbiotic microorganisms, including the obligate primary symbiont Wigglesworthia glossinidia. A relationship between Wigglesworthia and tsetse fly infection by trypanosomes has been suggested, as removal of the ...
Soumana, I. H., Tchicaya, B., Simo, G., /Geiger, Anne   +3 more
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Wigglesworthia gen. nov. and Wigglesworthia glossinidia sp. nov., Taxa Consisting of the Mycetocyte-Associated, Primary Endosymbionts of Tsetse Flies [PDF]

International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 1995
The primary endosymbionts (P-endosymbionts) of tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are harbored inside specialized cells (mycetocytes) in the anterior region of the gut, and these specialized cells form a white, U-shaped organelle called mycetome.
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