Genetic structure and symbiotic profile of worldwide natural populations of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata

Improved taxonomic assignment of rumen bacterial 16S rRNA sequences using a revised SILVA taxonomic framework

(2019) Gemma Henderson et al.   PeerJ

The effects of geographic origin and antibiotic treatment on the gut symbiotic communities of Bactrocera oleae populations

(2019) Panagiota Koskinioti et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Taxonomy, Diet, and Developmental Stage Contribute to the Structuring of Gut-Associated Bacterial Communities in Tephritid Pest Species

(2019) Antonios A. Augustinos et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Joint FAO/IAEA coordinated research project on “use of symbiotic bacteria to reduce mass-rearing costs and increase mating success in selected fruit pests in support of SIT application”

(2019) Carlos Cáceres et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Enterobacter sp. AA26 gut symbiont as a protein source for Mediterranean fruit fly mass-rearing and sterile insect technique applications

(2019) Georgios A. Kyritsis et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Impact of Sample Preservation and Manipulation on Insect Gut Microbiome Profiling. A Test Case With Fruit Flies (Diptera, Tephritidae)

(2019) Maarten De Cock et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative Analysis of the Gut Bacterial Community of Four Anastrepha Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) Based on Pyrosequencing

(2018) Carmen Ventura et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Instar- and host-associated differentiation of bacterial communities in the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

(2018) Antonino Malacrinò et al.   PLoS One

Intestinal probiotics restore the ecological fitness decline of Bactrocera dorsalis by irradiation

(2018) Zhaohui Cai et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Population genetics and migration pathways of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata inferred with coalescent methods

(2018) Maria Belen Arias et al.   PeerJ

Ceratitis capitata genetic sexing strains: laboratory evaluation of strains from mass-rearing facilities worldwide

(2017) A.A. Augustinos et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

Inheritance of Fifteen Microsatellite Loci inCeratitis capitata(Diptera: Tephritidae)

(2017) T. Todd et al.   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

Medfly Gut Microbiota and Enhancement of the Sterile Insect Technique: Similarities and Differences of Klebsiella oxytoca and Enterobacter sp. AA26 Probiotics during the Larval and Adult Stages of the VIENNA 8D53+ Genetic Sexing Strain

(2017) Georgios A. Kyritsis et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Deconstructing intercontinental invasion pathway hypotheses of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) using a Bayesian inference approach: are port interceptions and quarantine protocols successfully preventing new invasions?

(2015) Minette Karsten et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

The Microbiome of Field-Caught and Laboratory-Adapted Australian Tephritid Fruit Fly Species with Different Host Plant Use and Specialisation

(2015) J. L. Morrow et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Diversity of bacterial communities in the midgut ofBactrocera cucurbitae(Diptera: Tephritidae) populations and their potential use as attractants

(2015) Ashok B Hadapad et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Exploitation of the Medfly Gut Microbiota for the Enhancement of Sterile Insect Technique: Use of Enterobacter sp. in Larval Diet-Based Probiotic Applications

(2015) Antonios A. Augustinos et al.   PLoS One

Australian endemic pest tephritids: genetic, molecular and microbial tools for improved Sterile Insect Technique

(2014) Kathryn A Raphael et al.   BMC GENETICS

An evaluation of outcrossing to improve mass-reared strains of the Queensland fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni

(2014) A.S. Gilchrist et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TROPICAL INSECT SCIENCE

Genetic changes during laboratory domestication of an olive fly SIT strain

(2013) N. E. Zygouridis et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Bacteria Associated with a Tree-Killing Insect Reduce Concentrations of Plant Defense Compounds

(2013) Celia K. Boone et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Fitness Improvement of Mass-Reared Sterile Males of Ceratitis capitata (Vienna 8 strain) (Diptera: Tephritidae) After Gut Enrichment With Probiotics

(2013) Heithem Hamden et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Population Genetics of Ceratitis capitata in South Africa: Implications for Dispersal and Pest Management

(2013) Minette Karsten et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic, Metabolic, and Taxonomic Diversities Shape Mediterranean Fruit Fly Microbiotas during Ontogeny

(2012) Yael Aharon et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Associating microbiome composition with environmental covariates using generalized UniFrac distances

(2012) Jun Chen et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research--an update

(2012) R. Peakall et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic Consequences of Domestication and Mass Rearing of Pest Fruit Fly Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera: Tephritidae)

(2012) A. S. Gilchrist et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

(2012) Anna Klindworth et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Bacterially enriched diet improves sexual performance of sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies

(2011) S. Gavriel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method

(2011) Dent A. Earl et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Manipulation of the microbiota of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) improves sterile male sexual performance

(2009) Eyal Ben Ami et al.   ISME Journal

Inferring weak population structure with the assistance of sample group information

(2009) MELISSA J. HUBISZ et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers from the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata: cross-species amplification in other Tephritidae species reveals a varying degree of transferability

(2009) E. E. Stratikopoulos et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Gut bacterial communities in the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) and their impact on host longevity

(2008) A. Behar et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Effect of bacteria on nutritional status and reproductive success of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

(2008) MICHAEL BEN-YOSEF et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY