The draft genome of strain cCpun from biting midges confirms insect Cardinium are not a monophyletic group and reveals a novel gene family expansion in a symbiont

Evolutionary Genetics of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Genes cifA and cifB in Prophage WO of Wolbachia

(2018) Amelia R I Lindsey et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Bacterial endosymbiont Cardinium cSfur genome sequence provides insights for understanding the symbiotic relationship in Sogatella furcifera host

(2018) Zhen Zeng et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A Tangled Web: Origins of Reproductive Parasitism

(2018) Joseph J Gillespie et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Novel Cardinium strains in non-marine ostracod (Crustacea) hosts from natural populations

(2018) Isa Schön et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia–Cardinium Dual Endosymbiosis in a Plant-Parasitic Nematode

(2018) Amanda M. V. Brown et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A new Cardinium group of bacteria found in Achipteria coleoptrata (Acari: Oribatida)

(2018) Edyta Konecka et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Torix group Rickettsia are widespread in Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), reach high frequency and carry unique genomic features

(2017) Jack Pilgrim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Wolbachia deubiquitylating enzyme induces cytoplasmic incompatibility

(2017) John F. Beckmann et al.   Nature Microbiology

Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals Novel Candidate Genes for Cardinium hertigii -Caused Cytoplasmic Incompatibility and Host-Cell Interaction

(2017) Evelyne Mann et al.   mSystems

Contentious relationships in phylogenomic studies can be driven by a handful of genes

(2017) Xing-Xing Shen et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evolview v2: an online visualization and management tool for customized and annotated phylogenetic trees

(2016) Zilong He et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Insect symbionts in food webs

(2016) Ailsa H. C. McLean et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Grandeur Alliances: Symbiont Metabolic Integration and Obligate Arthropod Hematophagy

(2016) Rita V.M. Rio et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Thousands of microbial genomes shed light on interconnected biogeochemical processes in an aquifer system

(2016) Karthik Anantharaman et al.   Nature Communications

Genome Skimming: A Rapid Approach to Gaining Diverse Biological Insights into Multicellular Pathogens

(2016) Dee R. Denver et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Detection of Low-Level Cardinium and Wolbachia Infections in Culicoides

(2015) Peter T. Mee et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Flavobacterium gliding motility and the type IX secretion system

(2015) Mark J McBride et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

(2015) Jaime Huerta-Cepas et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods

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

Reproductive Parasitism: Maternally Inherited Symbionts in a Biparental World

(2015) Gregory D.D. Hurst et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Plant-mediated interspecific horizontal transmission of an intracellular symbiont in insects

(2015) Elena Gonella et al.   Scientific Reports

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

Anion inhibition studies of two new β-carbonic anhydrases from the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila

(2014) Isao Nishimori et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Skylign: a tool for creating informative, interactive logos representing sequence alignments and profile hidden Markov models

(2014) Travis J Wheeler et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The Genome of Cardinium cBtQ1 Provides Insights into Genome Reduction, Symbiont Motility, and Its Settlement in Bemisia tabaci

(2014) Diego Santos-Garcia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomic Diversification in Strains of Rickettsia felis Isolated from Different Arthropods

(2014) Joseph J. Gillespie et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

First detection of endosymbiotic bacteria in biting midgesCulicoides pulicarisandCulicoides punctatus, important Palaearctic vectors of bluetongue virus

(2014) S. E. LEWIS et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

Massive Expansion of Ubiquitination-Related Gene Families within the Chlamydiae

(2014) Daryl Domman et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic

(2014) Michael Gerth et al.   Nature Communications

Insights into bacterial CO2 metabolism revealed by the characterization of four carbonic anhydrases in Ralstonia eutropha H16

(2014) Claudia S Gai et al.   AMB Express

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Ankyrin-repeat proteins from sponge symbionts modulate amoebal phagocytosis

(2013) Mary T. H. D. Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Diversity and Evolution of Wolbachia Ankyrin Repeat Domain Genes

(2013) Stefanos Siozios et al.   PLoS One

REAPR: a universal tool for genome assembly evaluation

(2013) Martin Hunt et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Blobology: exploring raw genome data for contaminants, symbionts and parasites using taxon-annotated GC-coverage plots

(2013) Sujai Kumar et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Prevalence of the symbiont Cardinium in Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) vector species is associated with land surface temperature

(2012) Neta Morag et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Gliding Motility and Por Secretion System Genes Are Widespread among Members of the Phylum Bacteroidetes

(2012) Mark J. McBride et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Sequence, structure and functional diversity of PD-(D/E)XK phosphodiesterase superfamily

(2012) Kamil Steczkiewicz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Antibiotic-Induced Change of Bacterial Communities Associated with the Copepod Nitocra spinipes

(2012) Anna Edlund et al.   PLoS One

Comparative Genomics Suggests an Independent Origin of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii

(2012) Thomas Penz et al.   PLoS Genetics

A fast, lock-free approach for efficient parallel counting of occurrences of k-mers

(2011) Guillaume Marçais et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Wolbachia and the biological control of mosquito-borne disease

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

Genomic basis of endosymbiont-conferred protection against an insect parasitoid

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities

(2011) J. Ferrari et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The genome of the amoeba symbiont "CandidatusAmoebophilus asiaticus" encodes an afp-like prophage possibly used for protein secretion

(2011) Thomas Penz et al.   Virulence

genoPlotR: comparative gene and genome visualization in R

(2010) L. Guy et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Scaffolding pre-assembled contigs using SSPACE

(2010) Marten Boetzer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Gene duplications in prokaryotes can be associated with environmental adaptation

(2010) Marit S Bratlie et al.   BMC GENOMICS

A divergent Cardinium found in daddy long-legs (Arachnida: Opiliones)

(2010) Jin Chang et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation

(2010) Christina Toft et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Diversity and Phylogeny of Cardinium (Bacteroidetes) in Armored Scale Insects (Hemiptera: Diaspididae)

(2009) M. E. Gruwell et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Prevalence of Cardinium Bacteria in Planthoppers and Spider Mites and Taxonomic Revision of "Candidatus Cardinium hertigii" Based on Detection of a New Cardinium Group from Biting Midges

(2009) Y. Nakamura et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

trimAl: a tool for automated alignment trimming in large-scale phylogenetic analyses

(2009) S. Capella-Gutierrez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Protein secretion systems in bacterial-host associations, and their description in the Gene Ontology

(2009) Tsai-Tien Tseng et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

The Genome of the Amoeba Symbiont "Candidatus Amoebophilus asiaticus" Reveals Common Mechanisms for Host Cell Interaction among Amoeba-Associated Bacteria

(2009) S. Schmitz-Esser et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

A protein secretion system linked to bacteroidete gliding motility and pathogenesis

(2009) K. Sato et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Population Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: Maintenance and Spread of Cardinium Symbionts in a Parasitic Wasp

(2008) S. J. Perlman et al.   GENETICS

High incidence of the maternally inherited bacterium Cardinium in spiders

(2008) OLIVIER DURON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The maternal-effect, selfish genetic element Medea is associated with a composite Tc1 transposon

(2008) M. D. Lorenzen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ankyrin Repeat Proteins Comprise a Diverse Family of Bacterial Type IV Effectors

(2008) X. Pan et al.   SCIENCE