Mosquito‐borne diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and filariasis cause an enormous
health burden to people living in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Despite years …

The growing expansion of mosquito vectors has made mosquito-borne arboviral diseases a
global threat to public health, and the lack of licensed vaccines and treatments highlight the …

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are currently being released for
arbovirus suppression around the world. Their potential to invade populations and persist …

The obligate intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis infects around 20% of all insect
species. It is maternally inherited and induces reproductive alterations of insect populations …

The highly specialized genomes of bacterial endosymbionts typically lack one of the major
contributors of genomic flux in the free-living microbial world—bacteriophages. This study …

The small genomes of obligate intracellular bacteria are often presumed to be impervious to
mobile DNA and the fluid genetic processes that drive diversification in free-living bacteria …

Wolbachia bacteria are endosymbiotic partners of many animal species, in which they
behave as either parasites (in arthropod hosts) or mutualists (in nematode hosts). What …

The discovery of an extraordinarily high level of mobile elements in the genome of
Wolbachia, a widespread arthropod and nematode endosymbiont, suggests that this …

Regulation of microbial population density is a necessity in stable symbiotic interactions. In
Wolbachia symbiosis, both bacterial and host genotypes are involved in density regulation …

The outcome and the evolution of host-symbiont associations depend on environmental
constraints, but responses are difficult to predict since they arise from a complex interaction …