Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review

A Review: Aedes-Borne Arboviral Infections, Controls and Wolbachia-Based Strategies

(2021) Samson T. Ogunlade et al.   Vaccines

Age, tissue, genotype and virus infection regulate Wolbachia levels in Drosophila

(2020) Rupinder Kaur et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Distinct epigenomic and transcriptomic modifications associated with Wolbachia-mediated asexuality

(2020) Xin Wu et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Pseudoscorpion Wolbachia symbionts: diversity and evidence for a new supergroup S

(2020) Emilie Lefoulon et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Environmental and Genetic Contributions to Imperfect wMel-Like Wolbachia Transmission and Frequency Variation

(2020) Michael T. J. Hague et al.   GENETICS

Viral RNA is a target for Wolbachia-mediated pathogen blocking

(2020) Tamanash Bhattacharya et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Wolbachia Inhibits Binding of Dengue and Zika Viruses to Mosquito Cells

(2020) Peng Lu et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Phenotypic Response of Wolbachia pipientis in a Cell-Free Medium

(2020) Alyssa M. Krafsur et al.   Microorganisms

Stable Introduction of Plant-Virus-Inhibiting Wolbachia into Planthoppers for Rice Protection

(2020) Jun-Tao Gong et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting

(2020) Athena Lemon et al.   GENETICS

Life and Death of Selfish Genes: Comparative Genomics Reveals the Dynamic Evolution of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

(2020) Julien Martinez et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Large scale genome reconstructions illuminate Wolbachia evolution

(2020) Matthias Scholz et al.   Nature Communications

Evolution-guided mutagenesis of the cytoplasmic incompatibility proteins: Identifying CifA’s complex functional repertoire and new essential regions in CifB

(2020) J. Dylan Shropshire et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Symbiont-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility: what have we learned in 50 years?

(2020) J Dylan Shropshire et al.   eLife

AWZ1066S, a highly specific anti-Wolbachia drug candidate for a short-course treatment of filariasis

(2019) W. David Hong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Wolbachia mobilome in Culex pipiens includes a putative plasmid

(2019) Julie Reveillaud et al.   Nature Communications

Preclinical development of an oral anti-Wolbachia macrolide drug for the treatment of lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis

(2019) Mark J. Taylor et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Genome expansion of an obligate parthenogenesis-associated Wolbachia poses an exception to the symbiont reduction model

(2019) A. A. Kampfraath et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Localized Control of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Miami, FL, via Inundative Releases of Wolbachia-Infected Male Mosquitoes

(2019) James W Mains et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Wolbachia Acquisition by Drosophila yakuba-clade Hosts and Transfer of Incompatibility Loci Between Distantly Related Wolbachia

(2019) Brandon S. Cooper et al.   GENETICS

Incompatible and sterile insect techniques combined eliminate mosquitoes

(2019) Xiaoying Zheng et al.   NATURE

Two-By-One model of cytoplasmic incompatibility: Synthetic recapitulation by transgenic expression of cifA and cifB in Drosophila

(2019) J. Dylan Shropshire et al.   PLoS Genetics

The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont

(2019) Jessamyn I. Perlmutter et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A bacterium against the tiger: preliminary evidence of fertility reduction after release of Aedes albopictus males with manipulated Wolbachia infection in an Italian urban area

(2019) Beniamino Caputo et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Establishment of Wolbachia Strain wAlbB in Malaysian Populations of Aedes aegypti for Dengue Control

(2019) Wasi A. Nazni et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Rapid Global Spread of w Ri-like Wolbachia across Multiple Drosophila

(2018) Michael Turelli et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Maternal Effect Gene Wds Controls Wolbachia Titer in Nasonia

(2018) Lisa J. Funkhouser-Jones et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Wolbachia Control Stem Cell Behavior and Stimulate Germline Proliferation in Filarial Nematodes

(2018) Vincent Foray et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

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

Aedes anphevirus (AeAV): an insect-specific virus distributed worldwide in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that has complex interplays with Wolbachia and dengue virus infection in cells

(2018) Rhys Parry et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Controlling vector-borne diseases by releasing modified mosquitoes

(2018) Heather A. Flores et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

One prophage WO gene rescues cytoplasmic incompatibility inDrosophila melanogaster

(2018) J. Dylan Shropshire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wolbachia w Stri Blocks Zika Virus Growth at Two Independent Stages of Viral Replication

(2018) M. J. Schultz et al.   mBio

Investigating the Molecular Genetic Basis of Cytoplasmic Sex Determination Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts in Terrestrial Isopods

(2018) Myriam Badawi et al.   Genes

Game of clones: Is Wolbachia inducing speciation in a weevil with a mixed reproductive mode?

(2018) A.J. Elias-Costa et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Large-Scale Identification of Wolbachia pipientis Effectors

(2017) Danny W. Rice et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Patterns and mechanisms in instances of endosymbiont-induced parthenogenesis

(2017) W.-J. Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

(2017) Daniel P. LePage et al.   NATURE

Wolbachia elevates host methyltransferase expression to block an RNA virus early during infection

(2017) Tamanash Bhattacharya et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evolutionary Significance of Wolbachia-to-Animal Horizontal Gene Transfer: Female Sex Determination and the f Element in the Isopod Armadillidium vulgare

(2017) Richard Cordaux et al.   Genes

A Wolbachia deubiquitylating enzyme induces cytoplasmic incompatibility

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

Targeted Enrichment and Sequencing of Recent Endosymbiont-Host Lateral Gene Transfers

(2017) Julie C. Dunning Hotopp et al.   Scientific Reports

Insertion sequence polymorphism and genomic rearrangements uncover hidden Wolbachia diversity in Drosophila suzukii and D. subpulchrella

(2017) Rupinder Kaur et al.   Scientific Reports

w Pip Wolbachia contribution to Aedes albopictus SIT performance: Advantages under intensive rearing

(2016) Arianna Puggioli et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Wolbachia Protein TomO Targets nanos mRNA and Restores Germ Stem Cells in Drosophila Sex-lethal Mutants

(2016) Manabu Ote et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Comparative Genomics of Two Closely RelatedWolbachiawith Different Reproductive Effects on Hosts

(2016) Irene L.G. Newton et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Plantmediated horizontal transmission of Wolbachia between whiteflies

(2016) Shao-Jian Li et al.   ISME Journal

Origin and Evolution of Rickettsial Plasmids

(2016) Khalid El Karkouri et al.   PLoS One

Birth of a W sex chromosome by horizontal transfer ofWolbachiabacterial symbiont genome

(2016) Sébastien Leclercq et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Speciation by Symbiosis: the Microbiome and Behavior

(2016) J. Dylan Shropshire et al.   mBio

Eukaryotic association module in phage WO genomes from Wolbachia

(2016) Sarah R. Bordenstein et al.   Nature Communications

Comparative Genomics of a Parthenogenesis-Inducing Wolbachia Symbiont

(2016) Amelia R. I. Lindsey et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Establishment of a Wolbachia Superinfection in Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes as a Potential Approach for Future Resistance Management

(2016) D. Albert Joubert et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The rich somatic life ofWolbachia

(2016) Jose E. Pietri et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Breakdown of coevolution between symbiotic bacteriaWolbachiaand their filarial hosts

(2016) Emilie Lefoulon et al.   PeerJ

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

(2016) Michael Gerth et al.   Nature Microbiology

Wolbachia in European Populations of the Invasive Pest Drosophila suzukii: Regional Variation in Infection Frequencies

(2016) Julien Cattel et al.   PLoS One

Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes

(2015) Seth R. Bordenstein et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Selectively Kills Male Hosts by Targeting the Masculinizing Gene

(2015) Takahiro Fukui et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Wolbachia Utilize Host Actin for Efficient Maternal Transmission in Drosophila melanogaster

(2015) Irene L. G. Newton et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Wolbachiaco-infection in a hybrid zone: discovery of horizontal gene transfers from twoWolbachiasupergroups into an animal genome

(2015) Lisa J. Funkhouser-Jones et al.   PeerJ

Wolbachia endosymbionts and human disease control

(2014) Barton E. Slatko et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism

(2014) N. Nikoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomic analyses uncover origin and spread of the Wolbachia pandemic

(2014) Michael Gerth et al.   Nature Communications

Presence of Extensive Wolbachia Symbiont Insertions Discovered in the Genome of Its Host Glossina morsitans morsitans

(2014) Corey Brelsfoard et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Co-evolution between an Endosymbiont and Its Nematode Host: Wolbachia Asymmetric Posterior Localization and AP Polarity Establishment

(2014) Frederic Landmann et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Repurposing of approved drugs from the human pharmacopoeia to target Wolbachia endosymbionts of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis

(2014) Kelly L. Johnston et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Drugs and Drug Resistance

Harnessing mosquito–Wolbachia symbiosis for vector and disease control

(2013) Kostas Bourtzis et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Efficient RNA virus control in Drosophila requires the RNA methyltransferase Dnmt2

(2013) Zeljko Durdevic et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Cannibalism and Predation as Paths for Horizontal Passage of Wolbachia between Terrestrial Isopods

(2013) Winka Le Clec’h et al.   PLoS One

Wolbachia uses a host microRNA to regulate transcripts of a methyltransferase, contributing to dengue virus inhibition in Aedes aegypti

(2013) G. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wolbachia Variants Induce Differential Protection to Viruses in Drosophila melanogaster: A Phenotypic and Phylogenomic Analysis

(2013) Ewa Chrostek et al.   PLoS Genetics

Analysis of gene expression from the Wolbachia genome of a filarial nematode supports both metabolic and defensive roles within the symbiosis

(2012) A. C. Darby et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Whole-Genome Sequence of Wolbachia Strain wAlbB, an Endosymbiont of Tiger Mosquito Vector Aedes albopictus

(2012) P. Mavingui et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Speciation by symbiosis

(2012) Robert M. Brucker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Relative Importance of Innate Immune Priming in Wolbachia-Mediated Dengue Interference

(2012) Edwige Rancès et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Both asymmetric mitotic segregation and cell-to-cell invasion are required for stable germline transmission of Wolbachia in filarial nematodes

(2012) F. Landmann et al.   Biology Open

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

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

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

(2011) T. Walker et al.   NATURE

Wolbachia-Mediated Antibacterial Protection and Immune Gene Regulation in Drosophila

(2011) Zhee Sheen Wong et al.   PLoS One

Intragenomic conflict in populations infected by Parthenogenesis Inducing Wolbachia ends with irreversible loss of sexual reproduction

(2010) Richard Stouthamer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Decoupling of Host-Symbiont-Phage Coadaptations Following Transfer Between Insect Species

(2010) M. E. Chafee et al.   GENETICS

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

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

Insertion Sequence Inversions Mediated by Ectopic Recombination between Terminal Inverted Repeats

(2010) Alison Ling et al.   PLoS One

Phage WO of Wolbachia: lambda of the endosymbiont world

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

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

(2010) Zakaria Kambris et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Infectious Speciation Revisited: Impact of Symbiont-Depletion on Female Fitness and Mating Behavior of Drosophila paulistorum

(2010) Wolfgang J. Miller et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Extensive genomic diversity of closely related Wolbachia strains

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

A Randomized Trial of Doxycycline forMansonella perstansInfection

(2009) Yaya I. Coulibaly et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

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

Stable Introduction of a Life-Shortening Wolbachia Infection into the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2009) C. J. McMeniman et al.   SCIENCE

Wolbachia-Mediated Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Is Associated with Impaired Histone Deposition in the Male Pronucleus

(2009) Frédéric Landmann et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evidence for Metabolic Provisioning by a Common Invertebrate Endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, during Periods of Nutritional Stress

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Genetics and Cell Biology ofWolbachia-Host Interactions

(2008) Laura R. Serbus et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

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

(2008) Rhitoban Raychoudhury et al.   EVOLUTION

Intense Transpositional Activity of Insertion Sequences in an Ancient Obligate Endosymbiont

(2008) R. Cordaux et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Genome Evolution of Wolbachia Strain wPip from the Culex pipiens Group

(2008) L. Klasson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Are biologists in 'future shock'? Symbiosis integrates biology across domains

(2008) Margaret McFall-Ngai   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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