Wolbachia are intracellular bacterial symbionts that are able to protect various insect hosts
from viral infections. This tripartite interaction was initially described in Drosophila …

Bacterial organisms have undergone homologous recombination (HR) and horizontal gene
transfer (HGT) multiple times during their history. These processes could increase fitness to …

It is common among intracellular bacterial pathogens to use eukaryotic-like proteins that
mimic and manipulate host cellular processes to promote colonization and intracellular …

Several lineages of symbiotic bacteria in insects selfishly manipulate host reproduction to
spread in a population, often by distorting host sex ratios. Spiroplasma poulsonii, is a helical …

Wolbachia are the most common obligate, intracellular bacteria in animals. They exist
worldwide in arthropod and nematode hosts in which they commonly act as reproductive …

RNA interference (RNAi)‐based technologies are starting to be commercialized as a new
approach for agricultural pest control. Horizontally transferred genes (HTGs), which have …

Endosymbioses influence host physiology, reproduction, and fitness, but these relationships
require efficient microbe transmission between host generations to persist. Maternally …

Culex pipiens mosquitoes are infected with Wolbachia (w Pip) that cause an important
diversity of cytoplasmic incompatibilities (CIs). Functional transgenic studies have implicated …

Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is a conditional sterility induced by the bacterium Wolbachia
pipientis that infects reproductive tissues in many arthropods. Although CI provides a …

Candidate phylum TM6 is a major bacterial lineage recognized through culture-independent
rRNA surveys to be low abundance members in a wide range of habitats; however, they are …