The cellular lives of Wolbachia

J Porter, W Sullivan - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Wolbachia are successful Gram-negative bacterial endosymbionts, globally infecting a large
fraction of arthropod species and filarial nematodes. Efficient vertical transmission, the …

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

JH Werren, L Baldo, ME Clark - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
Wolbachia are common intracellular bacteria that are found in arthropods and nematodes.
These alphaproteobacteria endosymbionts are transmitted vertically through host eggs and …

Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

T Hosokawa, R Koga, Y Kikuchi… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Many insects are dependent on bacterial symbionts that provide essential nutrients (ex.
aphid–Buchnera and tsetse–Wiglesworthia associations), wherein the symbionts are …

Native microbiome impedes vertical transmission of Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes

GL Hughes, BL Dodson, RM Johnson… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Over evolutionary time, Wolbachia has been repeatedly transferred between host species
contributing to the widespread distribution of the symbiont in arthropods. For novel infections …

Wolbachia Infections Are Virulent and Inhibit the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum in Anopheles Gambiae

GL Hughes, R Koga, P Xue, T Fukatsu… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria are potent modulators of pathogen infection and
transmission in multiple naturally and artificially infected insect species, including important …

Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: a stinkbug acquires a beneficial gut symbiont from the environment every generation

Y Kikuchi, T Hosokawa, T Fukatsu - Applied and environmental …, 2007 - Am Soc Microbiol
The broad-headed bug Riptortus clavatus (Heteroptera: Alydidae) possesses a number of
crypts at a posterior midgut region, which house a dense population of a bacterial symbiont …

Acetic acid bacteria as symbionts of insects

E Crotti, B Chouaia, A Alma, G Favia, C Bandi… - Acetic acid bacteria …, 2016 - Springer
Acetic acid bacteria (AAB) are being increasingly described as associating with different
insect species that rely on sugar-based diets. AAB have been found in several insect orders …

The Genetics and Cell Biology of Wolbachia-Host Interactions

LR Serbus, C Casper-Lindley… - Annual review of …, 2008 - annualreviews.org
Wolbachia are gram-negative bacteria that are widespread in nature, carried by the majority
of insect species as well as some mites, crustaceans, and filarial nematodes. Wolbachia can …

The rich somatic life of Wolbachia

JE Pietri, H DeBruhl, W Sullivan - Microbiologyopen, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia is an intracellular endosymbiont infecting most arthropod and some filarial
nematode species that is vertically transmitted through the maternal lineage. Due to this …

Cellular mechanism for selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte–embryo interface

R Koga, XY Meng, T Tsuchida… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Many insects are associated with obligate symbiotic bacteria, which are localized in
specialized cells called bacteriocytes, vertically transmitted through host generations via …