Wolbachia are common intracellular bacteria that are found in arthropods and nematodes.
These alphaproteobacteria endosymbionts are transmitted vertically through host eggs and …

Insect heritable symbionts have proven to be ubiquitous, based on molecular screening of
various insect lineages. Recently, molecular and experimental approaches have yielded an …

Psyllids, whiteflies, aphids, and mealybugs are members of the suborder Sternorrhyncha
and share a common property, namely the utilization of plant sap as their food source. Each …

Helicobacter pylori, a chronic gastric pathogen of human beings, can be divided into seven
populations and subpopulations with distinct geographical distributions. These modern …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been a marker of choice for reconstructing historical
patterns of population demography, admixture, biogeography and speciation. However, it …

Research using cytochrome c oxidase barcoding techniques on zoological specimens was
initiated by Hebert et al.[Hebert, PDN, Ratnasingham, S., deWaard, JR, 2003. Barcoding …

Many insect species rely on intracellular bacterial symbionts for their viability and fecundity.
Large-scale DNA-sequence analyses are revealing the forces that shape the evolution of …

Vertical and horizontal transmission are terms that describe the transfer of symbionts from
parents to offspring and among unrelated hosts, respectively. Many symbionts, including …

Abstract 'Candidatus Cardinium', a recently described bacterium from the Bacteroidetes
group, is involved in diverse reproduction alterations of its arthropod hosts, including …

Insect Symbiosis summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic
organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge …