Wolbachia-based strategies for control of agricultural pests

JT Gong, TP Li, MK Wang, XY Hong - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Wolbachia-based incompatible insect technique (IIT) is effective for mosquito-
borne diseases.•Wolbachia-based approaches are proposed for the protection of plants …

Gene Drive and Symbiont Technologies for Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases

GH Wang, A Hoffmann… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue and malaria, pose a significant burden to global
health. Current control strategies with insecticides are only moderately effective. Scalable …

Reduced dengue incidence following city-wide wMel Wolbachia mosquito releases throughout three Colombian cities: Interrupted time series analysis and a …

ID Velez, SK Tanamas, MP Arbelaez… - PLoS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background The introduction of Wolbachia (w Mel strain) into Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
reduces their capacity to transmit dengue and other arboviruses. Randomised and non …

Low-input PacBio sequencing generates high-quality individual fly genomes and characterizes mutational processes

H Jia, S Tan, Y Cai, Y Guo, J Shen, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Long-read sequencing, exemplified by PacBio, revolutionizes genomics, overcoming
challenges like repetitive sequences. However, the high DNA requirement (> 1 µg) is …

An economic evaluation of Wolbachia deployments for dengue control in Vietnam

HC Turner, DL Quyen, R Dias, PT Huong… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Dengue is a major public health challenge and a growing problem due to
climate change. The release of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the intracellular …

Field deployment of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti using uncrewed aerial vehicle

YH Lin, DA Joubert, S Kaeser, C Dowd, J Germann… - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Over the past 50 years, there has been a marked increase in diseases like dengue fever,
chikungunya, and Zika. The World Mosquito Program (WMP) has developed an approach …

Wolbachia ‐carrying Aedes mosquitoes for preventing dengue infection

T Fox, Y Sguassero, M Chaplin, W Rose… - Cochrane Database …, 2024 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Dengue is a global health problem of high significance, with 3.9 billion people
at risk of infection. The geographic expansion of dengue virus (DENV) infection has resulted …

Wolbachia wAlbB remains stable in Aedes aegypti over 15 years but exhibits genetic background-dependent variation in virus blocking

X Liang, CH Tan, Q Sun, M Zhang, PSJ Wong… - PNAS …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The ability of the maternally transmitted endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia to induce
cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) and virus blocking makes it a promising weapon for …

wMel replacement of dengue-competent mosquitoes is robust to near-term climate change

VN Vásquez, LM Kueppers, G Rašić… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Rising temperatures are impacting the range and prevalence of mosquito-borne diseases. A
promising biocontrol technology replaces wild mosquitoes with those carrying the virus …

Intrinsic factors driving mosquito vector competence and viral evolution: a review

J Lewis, EN Gallichotte, J Randall, A Glass… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mosquitoes are responsible for the transmission of numerous viruses of global health
significance. The term “vector competence” describes the intrinsic ability of an arthropod …