Insect Sex Determination Manipulated by Their Endosymbionts: Incidences, Mechanisms and Implications

A male-killing Wolbachia carries a feminizing factor and is associated with degradation of the sex-determining system of its host

(2012) T. N. Sugimoto et al.   Biology Letters

Discovery of a CI-inducing Wolbachia and its associated fitness costs in the biological control agent Aphytis melinus DeBach (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)

(2011) Casandra J. Vasquez et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Wolbachia-induced feminisation newly found in Eurema hecabe, a sibling species of Eurema mandarina (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

(2011) SATOKO NARITA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Wolbachia and the biological control of mosquito-borne disease

(2011) Iñaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Differentially expressed genes in silkworm cell cultures in response to infection by Wolbachia and Cardinium endosymbionts

(2011) Y. Nakamura et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The value of an egg: resource reallocation in ladybirds (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) infected with male-killing bacteria

(2011) S. ELNAGDY et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Fifty-Year Trend Towards Suppression ofWolbachia-Induced Male-Killing by Its Butterfly Host,Hypolimnas bolina

(2011) Wataru Mitsuhashi et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Male Killing and Incomplete Inheritance of a Novel Spiroplasma in the Moth Ostrinia zaguliaevi

(2011) Jun Tabata et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The wMel Wolbachia strain blocks dengue and invades caged Aedes aegypti populations

(2011) T. Walker et al.   NATURE

Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

(2011) A. A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Facultative Symbiont Infections Affect Aphid Reproduction

(2011) Jean-Christophe Simon et al.   PLoS One

Drosophila Sex lethal Gene Initiates Female Development in Germline Progenitors

(2011) K. Hashiyama et al.   SCIENCE

Tsetse Immune System Maturation Requires the Presence of Obligate Symbionts in Larvae

(2011) Brian L. Weiss et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Wolbachia Infections in Anopheles gambiae Cells: Transcriptomic Characterization of a Novel Host-Symbiont Interaction

(2011) Grant L. Hughes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Rickettsia Symbionts Cause Parthenogenetic Reproduction in the Parasitoid Wasp Pnigalio soemius (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

(2010) M. Giorgini et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Male age influences the strength of Cardinium-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility expression in the carmine spider mite Tetranychus cinnabarinus

(2010) Rong-Rong Xie et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Discovery and identification of a male-killing agent in the Japanese ladybird Propylea japonica (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)

(2010) Tamsin MO Majerus et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Insect sex determination: it all evolves around transformer

(2010) Eveline C Verhulst et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Superinfection of cytoplasmic incompatibility-inducing Wolbachia is not additive in Orius strigicollis (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae)

(2010) M Watanabe et al.   HEREDITY

Expression of a doublesex homologue is altered in sexual mosaics of Ostrinia scapulalis moths infected with Wolbachia

(2010) Takafumi N. Sugimoto et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The mushroom habitat as an ecological arena for global exchange ofWolbachia

(2010) JULIE K. STAHLHUT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Native Wolbachia Endosymbionts of Drosophila melanogaster and Culex quinquefasciatus Increase Host Resistance to West Nile Virus Infection

(2010) Robert L. Glaser et al.   PLoS One

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Induces Resistance to Dengue Virus in Aedes aegypti

(2010) Guowu Bian et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Wolbachia Stimulates Immune Gene Expression and Inhibits Plasmodium Development in Anopheles gambiae

(2010) Zakaria Kambris et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti Limits Infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium

(2009) Luciano A. Moreira et al.   CELL

Endosymbiotic bacteria living inside the poultry red mite (Dermanyssus gallinae)

(2009) Carlos J. De Luna et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Mobile male-killer: similar Wolbachia strains kill males of divergent Drosophila hosts

(2009) S L Sheeley et al.   HEREDITY

Feminization and the collapse of haplodiploidy in an asexual parasitoid wasp harboring the bacterial symbiont Cardinium

(2009) M Giorgini et al.   HEREDITY

A new case of Wolbachia dependence in the genus Asobara: evidence for parthenogenesis induction in Asobara japonica

(2009) N Kremer et al.   HEREDITY

Cytoplasmic incompatibility in the parasitic wasp Encarsia inaron: disentangling the roles of Cardinium and Wolbachia symbionts

(2009) J A White et al.   HEREDITY

The effects of and interactions between, Cardinium and Wolbachia in the doubly infected spider mite Bryobia sarothamni

(2009) V I D Ros et al.   HEREDITY

Wolbachiainduces strong cytoplasmic incompatibility in the predatory bugMacrolophus pygmaeus

(2009) T. Machtelinckx et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

(2009) T. Hosokawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Unravelling the Wolbachia evolutionary role: the reprogramming of the host genomic imprinting

(2009) I. Negri et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Immune Activation by Life-Shortening Wolbachia and Reduced Filarial Competence in Mosquitoes

(2009) Z. Kambris et al.   SCIENCE

Variation in Antiviral Protection Mediated by Different Wolbachia Strains in Drosophila simulans

(2009) Sheree E. Osborne et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Effects and implications of antibiotic treatment on Wolbachia-infected vine weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

(2008) Youngsoo Son et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Genome-wide analysis of the interaction between the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia and its Drosophila host

(2008) Zhiyong Xi et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Strong cytoplasmic incompatibility and high vertical transmission rate can explain the high frequencies of Wolbachia infection in Japanese populations of Colias erate poliographus (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)

(2008) S. Narita et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Doxycycline Treatment ofBrugia malayi–Infected Persons Reduces Microfilaremia and Adverse Reactions after Diethylcarbamazine and Albendazole Treatment

(2008) Taniawati Supali et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

A Bacterium Targets Maternally Inherited Centrosomes to Kill Males in Nasonia

(2008) Patrick M. Ferree et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD PARASITE DOWN: EVOLUTION OF A MALE-KILLER SUPPRESSOR UNCOVERS CYTOPLASMIC INCOMPATIBILITY

(2008) Emily A. Hornett et al.   EVOLUTION

SPECIALIZATION AND GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION AMONGWOLBACHIASYMBIONTS FROM ANTS AND LYCAENID BUTTERFLIES

(2008) Jacob A. Russell et al.   EVOLUTION

Wolbachia endosymbiont is essential for egg hatching in a parthenogenetic arthropod

(2008) Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Novel RNA sequences associated with late male killing in Homona magnanima

(2008) K. Nakanishi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new cytogenetic mechanism for bacterial endosymbiont-induced parthenogenesis in Hymenoptera

(2008) T. Adachi-Hagimori et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Luís Teixeira et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Sex Determination in the Hymenoptera

(2007) George E. Heimpel et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Wolbachia infections and superinfections in cytoplasmically incompatible populations of the European cherry fruit fly Rhagoletis cerasi (Diptera, Tephritidae)

(2003) Markus Riegler et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY