Wolbachia Horizontal Transmission Events in Ants: What Do We Know and What Can We Learn?

Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants

(2017) Michael G. Branstetter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity and Transmission of Gut Bacteria in Atta and Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants during Development

(2017) Mariya Zhukova et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Wolbachia in guilds of Anastrepha fruit flies (Tephritidae) and parasitoid wasps (Braconidae)

(2016) Rodrigo O Mascarenhas et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Comparative genomics provides a timeframe for Wolbachia evolution and exposes a recent biotin synthesis operon transfer

(2016) Michael Gerth et al.   Nature Microbiology

Integration strategies of a leaf-cutting ant social parasite

(2015) Volker Nehring et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants Have Simple Gut Microbiota with Nitrogen-Fixing Potential

(2015) Panagiotis Sapountzis et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial symbiont sharing inMegalomyrmexsocial parasites and their fungus-growing ant hosts

(2015) Joanito Liberti et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods

(2015) L. A. Weinert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Intracellular Bacterium Wolbachia Uses Parasitoid Wasps as Phoretic Vectors for Efficient Horizontal Transmission

(2015) Muhammad Z. Ahmed et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The evolution of multiqueen breeding in eusocial lineages with permanent physically differentiated castes

(2014) Jacobus J. Boomsma et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Effect of phorid fly density on the foraging ofAtta vollenweiderileafcutter ants in the field

(2014) Andrea C. Guillade et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Variation in nestmate recognition ability among polymorphic leaf-cutting ant workers

(2014) Janni Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Evidence of horizontal transmission of primary and secondary endosymbionts between maize and rice weevils (Sitophilus zeamais and Sitophilus oryzae) and the parasitoid Theocolax elegans

(2014) Gislaine A. Carvalho et al.   JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH

Wolbachia in the Flesh: Symbiont Intensities in Germ-Line and Somatic Tissues Challenge the Conventional View of Wolbachia Transmission Routes

(2014) Crystal L. Frost et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic

(2014) Michael Gerth et al.   Nature Communications

Sperm mixing in the polyandrous leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex echinatior

(2014) Marlene Stürup et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Diversity and Evolution of Wolbachia Ankyrin Repeat Domain Genes

(2013) Stefanos Siozios et al.   PLoS One

Distribution of Endosymbiotic Reproductive Manipulators Reflects Invasion Process and Not Reproductive System Polymorphism in the Little Fire Ant Wasmannia auropunctata

(2013) Olivier Rey et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for Horizontal Transmission of Secondary Endosymbionts in the Bemisia tabaci Cryptic Species Complex

(2013) Muhammad Z. Ahmed et al.   PLoS One

Multiple Infections with Cardinium and Two Strains of Wolbachia in The Spider Mite Tetranychus phaselus Ehara: Revealing New Forces Driving the Spread of Wolbachia

(2013) Dong-Xiao Zhao et al.   PLoS One

High Levels of Multiple Infections, Recombination and Horizontal Transmission of Wolbachia in the Andricus mukaigawae (Hymenoptera; Cynipidae) Communities

(2013) Xiao-Hui Yang et al.   PLoS One

Chemically armed mercenary ants protect fungus-farming societies

(2013) R. M. M. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia and the Bacterial Species Concept

(2013) Kirsten Maren Ellegaard et al.   PLoS Genetics

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Loss of reproductive parasitism following transfer of male-killing Wolbachia to Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans

(2012) Z Veneti et al.   HEREDITY

Dynamic Wolbachia prevalence in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants: potential for a nutritional symbiosis

(2012) S. B. ANDERSEN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Presence and distribution of the endosymbiont Wolbachia among Solenopsis spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Brazil and its evolutionary history

(2012) Cíntia Martins et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

(2011) A. A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Biological notes on a fungus-growing ant, Trachymyrmex cf. zeteki (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Attini) attacked by a diverse community of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae)

(2010) B. Pérez-Ortega et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Remarkable Abundance and Evolution of Mobile Group II Introns in Wolbachia Bacterial Endosymbionts

(2010) S. Leclercq et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The mushroom habitat as an ecological arena for global exchange ofWolbachia

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

Multiple gains and losses of Wolbachia symbionts across a tribe of fungus-growing ants

(2010) C. L. FROST et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phage WO of Wolbachia: lambda of the endosymbiont world

(2010) Bethany N. Kent et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia: more than just a bug in insects genitals

(2009) Aggeliki Saridaki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Extensive genomic diversity of closely related Wolbachia strains

(2009) N. Ishmael et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The mosaic genome structure of the Wolbachia wRi strain infecting Drosophila simulans

(2009) L. Klasson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host Adaptation of a Wolbachia Strain after Long-Term Serial Passage in Mosquito Cell Lines

(2008) C. J. McMeniman et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia transmission dynamics in Formica wood ants

(2008) Lumi Viljakainen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Identification and Characterization of Wolbachia in Solenopsis saevissima Fire Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Southeastern Brazil

(2008) Rodrigo Fernando de Souza et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

SPECIALIZATION AND GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION AMONGWOLBACHIASYMBIONTS FROM ANTS AND LYCAENID BUTTERFLIES

(2008) Jacob A. Russell et al.   EVOLUTION

MODES OF ACQUISITION OFWOLBACHIA: HORIZONTAL TRANSFER, HYBRID INTROGRESSION, AND CODIVERGENCE IN THENASONIASPECIES COMPLEX

(2008) Rhitoban Raychoudhury et al.   EVOLUTION

Multiple Rescue Factors Within a Wolbachia Strain

(2008) S. Zabalou et al.   GENETICS

A comparison of homologous recombination rates in bacteria and archaea

(2008) Michiel Vos et al.   ISME Journal

Parasitism and Mutualism in Wolbachia: What the Phylogenomic Trees Can and Cannot Say

(2008) S. R. Bordenstein et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

(2008) T. R. Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA