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Primary and Secondary Symbionts of Cambodian Cicadellidae and the Role of Parasitisation. [PDF]
Environ Microbiol RepLeafhoppers are key agricultural pests, and their interactions with parasitoids may be influenced by microbial symbionts. In this study, we characterized the bacterial communities of six Cambodian leafhopper species and their parasitoids, finding that while Sulcia dominates leafhopper microbiotas, parasitoids exhibit higher microbial diversity.
Phauk S +3 more
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The Antiviral Effects of the Symbiont Bacteria Wolbachia in Insects
Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted bacterium that lives inside arthropod cells. Historically, it was viewed primarily as a parasite that manipulates host reproduction, but more recently it was discovered that Wolbachia can also protect Drosophila ...
A. C. Pimentel +3 more
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A decade of stability for wMel Wolbachia in natural Aedes aegypti populations
bioRxiv, 2021 Mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia endosymbionts are being released in many countries for arbovirus control. The wMel strain of Wolbachia blocks Aedes-borne virus transmission and can spread throughout mosquito populations by inducing cytoplasmic ...
Perran A. Ross +12 more
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Wolbachia cifB induces cytoplasmic incompatibility in the malaria mosquito vector
Nature Microbiology, 2021 Wolbachia, a maternally inherited intracellular bacterial species, can manipulate host insect reproduction by cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), which results in embryo lethality in crosses between infected males and uninfected females.
Kelsey L. Adams +5 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 +3 more
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Wolbachia-mediated sterility suppresses Aedes aegypti populations in the urban tropics
medRxiv, 2021 Incompatible insect technique (IIT) via releases of male Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes is a promising tool for dengue control. In a three-year trial in Singaporean high-rise housing estates, we demonstrated that Wolbachia-based IIT dramatically reduces ...
Project Wolbachia - Singapore Consortium +1 more
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Anti-Wolbachia drugs for filariasis [PDF]
Trends in Parasitology, 2021 The mutualistic association between Wolbachia endosymbionts and their filarial nematode hosts has been exploited as a validated drug target delivering macrofilaricidal outcomes. Limitations of existing antibiotics to scale-up have driven the search for new drugs, which are effective in shorter regimens of 7 days or less.
Kelly L. Johnston +6 more
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Gates Open Research, 2020 Background: Ae. aegypti mosquitoes stably transfected with the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis ( wMel strain) have been deployed for biocontrol of dengue and related arboviral diseases in multiple countries.
C. Indriani +25 more
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Remnants of horizontal transfers of Wolbachia genes in a Wolbachia-free woodwasp
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Abstract Background Wolbachia is a bacterial endosymbiont of many arthropod and nematode species. Due to its capacity to alter host biology, Wolbachia plays an important role in arthropod and nematode ecology and evolution. Sirex noctilio is a woodwasp causing economic loss in pine plantations of the Southern Hemisphere.
Queffelec, Josephine +3 more
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