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Lipids and Pathogen Blocking by Wolbachia

Trends in Parasitology, 2017
Mosquito-borne viruses are major human pathogens. Introducing Wolbachia into mosquitoes could reduce disease burdens because these bacteria block virus transmission. How Wolbachia does this is unclear, but new data show that modulation of host-cell lipids is critical.
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Wolbachia

2009
Publisher Summary This chapter describes Wolbachia, intracellular bacteria found in many organisms first observed in the cells of a mosquito. It is placed in the Rickettsiales. Its closest relatives are several pathogenetic bacteria, Cowdria and Ehrlichia, which are transmitted by arthropods to vertebrate hosts.
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New horizons for Wolbachia

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016
Two new studies provide insights into the close association between Wolbachia spp. and their hosts; one shows plant-mediated transmission and the other the bacterial origin of a new host sex chromosome.
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The Wolbachia Symbiont: Here, There and Everywhere

2020
Wolbachia symbionts, first observed in the 1920s, are now known to be present in about 30-70% of tested arthropod species, in about half of tested filarial nematodes (including the majority of human filarial nematodes), and some plant-parasitic nematodes.
Barton E. Slatko, Jeremy M. Foster, Alex Truchon, Clotilde K. S. Carlow, Emilie Lefoulon   +4 more
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Modeling Wolbachia infection in mosquito population via discrete dynamical models

Journal of difference equations and applications (Print), 2019
We formulate discrete dynamical models to study Wolbachia infection persistence by releasing Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes, which display rich dynamics including bistable, semi-stable and globally asymptotically stable equilibria.
Jianshe Yu, Bo Zheng
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Observations on wolbachiae in mosquitoes

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 1980
Abstract A slightly modified Giemsa smear procedure consistently demonstrated Wolbachia pipientis in Culex pipiens and the Wolbachia species of infected members of the Aedes scutellaris group. Aposymbiosis was induced in Aedes polynesiensis by treatment with 0.017 mg/ml tetracycline hydrochloride or by rearing larvae at temperatures of 32–33°C for 5 ...
Bao-Tyan Wang, John D. Wright
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Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

2001
SYLVAIN CHARLAT, KOSTAS BOURTZIS 3 AND HERVE MERCOT 1 Institut Jacques Monod, Laboratoire Dynamique du Genome et Evolution, CNRS-Universites Paris 6, Paris 7, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France, charlat@ijm.jussieu.fr 2 Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio 30100, Greece 3 Insect ...
Charlat, S., Bourtzis, K., Merçot, H.
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Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008
J. Werren, L. Baldo, M. E. Clark
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Wolbachia and river blindness

Trends in Parasitology, 2002
The filarial nematode Onchocerca volvulus is the causative agent of river blindness. Onchocerca volvulus can result in a range of disease states, one of which is eye disease, but the aetiology of this eye disease is unclear. It has been thought that microfilariae (the first larval stage progeny of adult worms) can enter the host eye and (perhaps ...
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Wolbachia, mitochondria and sterility

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2001
Charlat, S., Merçot, H.
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