Intracellular symbiont Symbiodolus is vertically transmitted and widespread across insect orders

JC Wierz, P Dirksen, R Kirsch, R Krüsemer… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Insects engage in manifold interactions with bacteria that can shift along the parasitism–
mutualism continuum. However, only a small number of bacterial taxa managed to …

The mechanism of cytoplasmic incompatibility is conserved in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes deployed for arbovirus control

R Kaur, CJ Meier, EA McGraw, JF Hillyer… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The rising interest and success in deploying inherited microorganisms and cytoplasmic
incompatibility (CI) for vector control strategies necessitate an explanation of the CI …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptome and Expression Analysis of Glycerol Biosynthesis-Related Genes in Glenea cantor Fabricius (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)

T Lan, R Su, Z Dong, X Tong, X Zheng… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Glenea cantor Fabricius (Cerambycidae: Lamiinae) is an important pest that damages kapok
trees in Southeast Asia with a wide adaptability to temperature. Glycerol is a protectant and …

Rapid turnover of pathogen-blocking Wolbachia and their incompatibility loci

JD Shropshire, WR Conner, D Vanderpool… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
At least half of all insect species carry maternally inherited Wolbachia alphaproteobacteria,
making Wolbachia the most common endosymbionts in nature. Wolbachia spread to high …

[HTML][HTML] Transposable Elements Contribute to the Regulation of Long Noncoding RNAs in Drosophila melanogaster

Y Gan, L Wang, G Liu, X Guo, Y Zhou, K Chang… - Insects, 2024 - mdpi.com
Abstract Background: Transposable elements (TEs) and noncoding sequences are major
components of the genome, yet their functional contributions to long noncoding RNAs …

Drosophila sperm sabotage by Wolbachia prophage

A Du Toit - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
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