Wolbachia host shifts: routes, mechanisms, constraints and evolutionary consequences

E Sanaei, S Charlat, J Engelstädter - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia is one of the most abundant endosymbionts on earth, with a wide distribution
especially in arthropods. Effective maternal transmission and the induction of various …

Wolbachia associations with insects: winning or losing against a master manipulator

CC Correa, JWO Ballard - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Wolbachia are intracellular, maternally inherited bacteria with an impressive history of
adaptation to intracellular lifestyles. Instead of adapting to a single host lineage, Wolbachia …

Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa

A Oren, GM Garrity, CT Parker, M Chuvochina… - 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
We here present annotated lists of names of Candidatus taxa of prokaryotes with ranks
between subspecies and class, proposed between the mid-1990s, when the provisional …

Breakdown of coevolution between symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia and their filarial hosts

E Lefoulon, O Bain, BL Makepeace, C d'Haese, S Uni… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
Wolbachia is an alpha-proteobacterial symbiont widely distributed in arthropods. Since the
identification of Wolbachia in certain animal-parasitic nematodes (the Onchocercidae or …

The terrestrial isopod microbiome: an all-in-one toolbox for animal–microbe interactions of ecological relevance

D Bouchon, M Zimmer, J Dittmer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Bacterial symbionts represent essential drivers of arthropod ecology and evolution,
influencing host traits such as nutrition, reproduction, immunity, and speciation. However …

Historic Museum Samples Provide Evidence for a Recent Replacement of Wolbachia Types in European Drosophila melanogaster

A Strunov, S Kirchner, J Schindelar… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Wolbachia is one of the most common bacterial endosymbionts, which is frequently found in
numerous arthropods and nematode taxa. Wolbachia infections can have a strong influence …

Evolution of Wolbachia mutualism and reproductive parasitism: insight from two novel strains that co-infect cat fleas

TP Driscoll, VI Verhoeve, C Brockway, DL Shrewsberry… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Wolbachiae are obligate intracellular bacteria that infect arthropods and certain nematodes.
Usually maternally inherited, they may provision nutrients to (mutualism) or alter sexual …

Genomic evidence for plant-parasitic nematodes as the earliest Wolbachia hosts

AMV Brown, SK Wasala, DK Howe, AB Peetz… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
Wolbachia, one of the most widespread endosymbionts, is a target for biological control of
mosquito-borne diseases (malaria and dengue virus), and antibiotic elimination of infectious …

The All-Rounder Sodalis: A New Bacteriome-Associated Endosymbiont of the Lygaeoid Bug Henestaris halophilus (Heteroptera: Henestarinae) and a Critical …

D Santos-Garcia, FJ Silva, S Morin… - Genome biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Hemipteran insects are well-known in their ability to establish symbiotic relationships with
bacteria. Among them, heteropteran insects present an array of symbiotic systems, ranging …

Diminutive, degraded but dissimilar: Wolbachia genomes from filarial nematodes do not conform to a single paradigm

E Lefoulon, T Clark, R Guerrero… - Microbial …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
Wolbachia are alpha-proteobacteria symbionts infecting a large range of arthropod species
and two different families of nematodes. Interestingly, these endosymbionts are able to …