Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of Wolbachia strain wAlbA reveals Wolbachia-associated plasmids are common

Muramidase, nuclease, or hypothetical protein genes intervene between paired genes encoding DNA packaging terminase and portal proteins in Wolbachia phages and prophages

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Highly transmissible cytoplasmic incompatibility by the extracellular insect symbiont Spiroplasma

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Infection Dynamics of Cotransmitted Reproductive Symbionts Are Mediated by Sex, Tissue, and Development

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Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae

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“Candidatus Mesenet longicola”: Novel Endosymbionts of Brontispa longissima that Induce Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

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Bacteria have numerous distinctive groups of phage–plasmids with conserved phage and variable plasmid gene repertoires

(2021) Eugen Pfeifer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review

(2021) Rupinder Kaur et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Comparative genomics reveals factors associated with phenotypic expression of Wolbachia

(2021) Guilherme Costa Baião et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Reduced competence to arboviruses following the sustainable invasion of Wolbachia into native Aedes aegypti from Southeastern Brazil

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Efficacy of Wolbachia-Infected Mosquito Deployments for the Control of Dengue

(2021) Adi Utarini et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Isolation and characterization of a novel bacteriophage WO from Allonemobius socius crickets in Missouri

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Staphylococcal phages and pathogenicity islands drive plasmid evolution

(2021) Suzanne Humphrey et al.   Nature Communications

Type II toxin-antitoxin systems: evolution and revolutions

(2020) N. Fraikin et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Computational evidence for antitoxins associated with RelE/ParE, RatA, Fic, and AbiEii-family toxins in Wolbachia genomes

(2020) Ann M. Fallon   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

Extensive antimicrobial resistance mobilization via multicopy plasmid encapsidation mediated by temperate phages

(2020) Lorena Rodríguez-Rubio et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

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 of Wolbachia mutualism and reproductive parasitism: insight from two novel strains that co-infect cat fleas

(2020) Timothy P. Driscoll et al.   PeerJ

Community-led, integrated, reproducible multi-omics with anvi’o

(2020) A. Murat Eren et al.   Nature Microbiology

The Wolbachia mobilome in Culex pipiens includes a putative plasmid

(2019) Julie Reveillaud et al.   Nature Communications

Complete Genome Sequence of the Wolbachia wAlbB Endosymbiont of Aedes albopictus

(2019) Amit Sinha et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Hijacking the Hijackers: Escherichia coli Pathogenicity Islands Redirect Helper Phage Packaging for Their Own Benefit

(2019) Alfred Fillol-Salom et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

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

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

Minimap2: pairwise alignment for nucleotide sequences

(2018) Heng Li   BIOINFORMATICS

The genome sequence of Escherichia coli tailed phage D6 and the diversity of Enterobacteriales circular plasmid prophages

(2018) Eddie B. Gilcrease et al.   VIROLOGY

In Vitro Culture of the Insect Endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii Highlights Bacterial Genes Involved in Host-Symbiont Interaction

(2018) Florent Masson et al.   mBio

The Wolbachia strain wAu provides highly efficient virus transmission blocking in Aedes aegypti

(2018) Thomas H. Ant et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A Tangled Web: Origins of Reproductive Parasitism

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

Male-killing toxin in a bacterial symbiont of Drosophila

(2018) Toshiyuki Harumoto et al.   NATURE

A bioinformatics approach to identifying Wolbachia infections in arthropods

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Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

(2017) Daniel P. LePage et al.   NATURE

Unicycler: Resolving bacterial genome assemblies from short and long sequencing reads

(2017) Ryan R. Wick et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A Wolbachia deubiquitylating enzyme induces cytoplasmic incompatibility

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

Eukaryotic association module in phage WO genomes from Wolbachia

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

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

(2016) Michael Gerth et al.   Nature Microbiology

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The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods

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The Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands: A Family of Highly Evolved Molecular Parasites

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(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   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

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Beyond the Chromosome: The Prevalence of Unique Extra-Chromosomal Bacteriophages with Integrated Virulence Genes in Pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus

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Symbionts Commonly Provide Broad Spectrum Resistance to Viruses in Insects: A Comparative Analysis of Wolbachia Strains

(2014) Julien Martinez et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Phylogenomics and Analysis of Shared Genes Suggest a Single Transition to Mutualism in Wolbachia of Nematodes

(2013) Francesco Comandatore et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia and the Bacterial Species Concept

(2013) Kirsten Maren Ellegaard et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

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

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

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New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

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Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

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Plasmid encoded antibiotic resistance: acquisition and transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in bacteria

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The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

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

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