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Using Wolbachia to control rice planthopper populations: progress and challenges

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Wolbachia have been developed as a tool for protecting humans from mosquito populations and mosquito-borne diseases. The success of using Wolbachia relies on the facts that Wolbachia are maternally transmitted and that Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic ...
Yan Guo, Jiayi Shao, Yanxian Wu, Yifeng Li   +3 more
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Environmental factors influence the local establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in two small communities in central Vietnam [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Gates Open Research, 2022
Background: The wMel strain of Wolbachia has been successfully introduced into Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and subsequently shown to reduce transmission of dengue and other pathogens, under both laboratory and field conditions.
Le T. Nghia, Vien Q. Mai, Le H. Tho, Peter Kyrylos, Nguyen T. Dong, Tim P. Hurst, Simon Kutcher, Katherine L. Anders, Megan Woolfit, Jacqui L. Montgomery, Le Nguyen, Edwige Rances, Breeanna J. McLean, Angela Caird, Scott L. O'Neill, Scott A. Ritchie, Peter A. Ryan, Inaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Jack Brown-Kenyon, Dang D. Anh, Nguyen T. Hien, Nguyen T. Yen, Nguyen H. Le, Vu S. Nam, Tran V. Phong, Nguyen B. Nguyen, Tran N. Duong, Luu Q. Hung, Duong T.T. Huong, Nguyen V. Hoang, Chau N.T. Trinh   +30 more
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Breakdown of coevolution between symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia and their filarial hosts [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
Wolbachia is an alpha-proteobacterial symbiont widely distributed in arthropods. Since the identification of Wolbachia in certain animal-parasitic nematodes (the Onchocercidae or filariae), the relationship between arthropod and nematode Wolbachia has ...
Emilie Lefoulon, Odile Bain, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Cyrille d’Haese, Shigehiko Uni, Coralie Martin, Laurent Gavotte   +6 more
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Comparison of Stable and Transient Wolbachia Infection Models in Aedes aegypti to Block Dengue and West Nile Viruses. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2017
Pathogen replication and transmission in Wolbachia infected insects are currently studied using three Wolbachia infection systems: naturally infected Wolbachia hosts, hosts transinfected with Wolbachia (stably maintained and inherited infections) and ...
Dirk Albert Joubert, Scott L O'Neill
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Posterior concentration of Wolbachia during the early embryogenesis of the host dynamically shapes the tissue tropism of Wolbachia in host Trichogramma wasps

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023
IntroductionThe bacterial endosymbiont, Wolbachia spp. induce thelytokous parthenogenesis in certain parasitoid wasps, such as the egg parasitoid wasps Trichogramma spp.
Jin-Cheng Zhou, Jin-Cheng Zhou, Qian-Jin Dong, Dan Shang, Su-Fang Ning, Huan-Huan Zhang, Ying Wang, Wu-Nan Che, Hui Dong, Li-Sheng Zhang   +9 more
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High Incidence of Related Wolbachia across Unrelated Leaf-Mining Diptera

Insects, 2021
The maternally inherited endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, plays an important role in the ecology and evolution of many of its hosts by affecting host reproduction and fitness.
Xuefen Xu, Peter M. Ridland, Paul A. Umina, Alex Gill, Perran A. Ross, Elia Pirtle, Ary A. Hoffmann   +6 more
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Pseudoscorpion Wolbachia symbionts: diversity and evidence for a new supergroup S

BMC Microbiology, 2020
Background Wolbachia are the most widely spread endosymbiotic bacteria, present in a wide variety of insects and two families of nematodes. As of now, however, relatively little genomic data has been available. The Wolbachia symbiont can be parasitic, as
Emilie Lefoulon, Travis Clark, Fanni Borveto, Marco Perriat-Sanguinet, Catherine Moulia, Barton E. Slatko, Laurent Gavotte   +6 more
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Wolbachia-mediated antibacterial protection and immune gene regulation in Drosophila. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
The outcome of microbial infection of insects is dependent not only on interactions between the host and pathogen, but also on the interactions between microbes that co-infect the host.
Zhee Sheen Wong, Lauren M Hedges, Jeremy C Brownlie, Karyn N Johnson   +3 more
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Wolbachia in mosquitoes from the Central Valley of California, USA

Parasites & Vectors, 2020
Background Wolbachia bacteria are widely distributed throughout terrestrial arthropod species. These bacteria can manipulate reproduction and influence the vector competence of their hosts.
Ryan Torres, Eunis Hernandez, Valeria Flores, Jose Luis Ramirez, Andrea L. Joyce   +4 more
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Distinct epigenomic and transcriptomic modifications associated with Wolbachia-mediated asexuality.

PLoS Pathogens, 2020
Wolbachia are maternally transmitted intracellular bacteria that induce a range of pathogenic and fitness-altering effects on insect and nematode hosts.
Xin Wu, Amelia R I Lindsey, Paramita Chatterjee, John H Werren, Richard Stouthamer, Soojin V Yi   +5 more
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