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

An automated system for evaluation of the potential functionome: MAPLE version 2.1.0

(2016) Hideto Takami et al.   DNA RESEARCH

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

(2016) Zilong He et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Grandeur Alliances: Symbiont Metabolic Integration and Obligate Arthropod Hematophagy

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

LPS Remodeling Triggers Formation of Outer Membrane Vesicles in Salmonella

(2016) Wael Elhenawy et al.   mBio

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

A Coxiella-Like Endosymbiont Is a Potential Vitamin Source for the Lone Star Tick

(2015) Todd A Smith et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Solving a Bloody Mess: B-Vitamin Independent Metabolic Convergence among Gammaproteobacterial Obligate Endosymbionts from Blood-Feeding Arthropods and the LeechHaementeria officinalis

(2015) Alejandro Manzano-Marín et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Delineation of Culicoides species by morphology and barcode exemplified by three new species of the subgenus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Scandinavia

(2015) Soren Achim Nielsen et al.   Parasites & Vectors

The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods

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

The Phylogeny ofRickettsiaUsing Different Evolutionary Signatures: How Tree-Like is Bacterial Evolution?

(2015) Gemma G. R. Murray et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Reproductive Parasitism: Maternally Inherited Symbionts in a Biparental World

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

High quality draft genome sequence and description of Occidentia massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Rickettsiaceae

(2015) Oleg Mediannikov et al.   Standards in Genomic Sciences

The Facultative Symbiont Rickettsia Protects an Invasive Whitefly against Entomopathogenic Pseudomonas syringae Strains

(2014) Tory A. Hendry et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prokka: rapid prokaryotic genome annotation

(2014) T. Seemann   BIOINFORMATICS

InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification

(2014) P. Jones et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

The return of metabolism: biochemistry and physiology of the pentose phosphate pathway

(2014) Anna Stincone et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rickettsia-related bacteria associated with papaya plants showing bunchy top disease in Cuba

(2014) M. Luis-Pantoja et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL PLANT PATHOLOGY

Implication of the Bacterial Endosymbiont Rickettsia spp. in Interactions of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci with Tomato yellow leaf curl virus

(2014) A. Kliot et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

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

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

Intrasperm vertical symbiont transmission

(2014) K. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elucidation of the 3-O-Deacylase Gene,pagL, Required for the Removal of Primary β-Hydroxy Fatty Acid from the Lipid A in the Nitrogen-fixing EndosymbiontRhizobium etliCE3

(2013) Dusty B. Brown et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Protection against a fungal pathogen conferred by the aphid facultative endosymbiontsRickettsiaandSpiroplasmais expressed in multiple host genotypes and species and is not influenced by co-infection with another symbiont

(2013) P. Łukasik et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

‘Candidatus Megaira polyxenophila’ gen. nov., sp. nov.: Considerations on Evolutionary History, Host Range and Shift of Early Divergent Rickettsiae

(2013) Martina Schrallhammer 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

Unipro UGENE: a unified bioinformatics toolkit

(2012) Konstantin Okonechnikov et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Microbial community of predatory bugs of the genus Macrolophus (Hemiptera: Miridae)

(2012) Thijs Machtelinckx et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Usefulness of rickettsial PCR assays for the molecular diagnosis of human rickettsioses

(2012) Sonia Santibáñez et al.   ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA

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

(2012) Neta Morag et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Infections with Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Rickettsia in the Dolichopodidae and other Empidoidea

(2012) Oliver Y. Martin et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Barcoding of biting midges in the genusCulicoides: a tool for species determination

(2012) M. ANDER et al.   MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

LPS remodeling is an evolved survival strategy for bacteria

(2012) Y. Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Insight into the Transmission Biology and Species-Specific Functional Capabilities of Tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) Obligate Symbiont Wigglesworthia

(2012) R. V. M. Rio et al.   mBio

Impact of Wolbachia on Infection with Chikungunya and Yellow Fever Viruses in the Mosquito Vector Aedes aegypti

(2012) Andrew F. van den Hurk et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Dramatic Increase in Glycerol Biosynthesis upon Oxidative Stress in the Anaerobic Protozoan Parasite Entamoeba histolytica

(2012) Afzal Husain et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Wolbachia and the biological control of mosquito-borne disease

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

A Rickettsia Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements Provides Insight into the Acquisition of Genes Characteristic of an Obligate Intracellular Lifestyle

(2011) J. J. Gillespie et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

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

Wolbachia strain wMel induces cytoplasmic incompatibility and blocks dengue transmission in Aedes albopictus

(2011) M. S. C. Blagrove et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rickettsia Symbionts Cause Parthenogenetic Reproduction in the Parasitoid Wasp Pnigalio soemius (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae)

(2010) M. Giorgini et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Scaffolding pre-assembled contigs using SSPACE

(2010) Marten Boetzer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Rickettsial evolution in the light of comparative genomics

(2010) Vicky Merhej et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Virulence and Immunomodulatory Roles of Bacterial Outer Membrane Vesicles

(2010) T. N. Ellis et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Nutrient provisioning facilitates homeostasis between tsetse fly (Diptera: Glossinidae) symbionts

(2010) A. K. Snyder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

High prevalence of Rickettsia gravesii sp. nov. in Amblyomma triguttatum collected from feral pigs

(2010) Andrew Yufa Li et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

(2010) Naruo Nikoh et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Induces Resistance to Dengue Virus in Aedes aegypti

(2010) Guowu Bian et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Endosymbiotic Bacteria in the Parasitic Ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

(2009) H. Y. Sun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Composition of Bacterial Communities Associated with Natural and Laboratory Populations of Asobara tabida Infected with Wolbachia

(2009) K. Zouache et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

(2009) Sara L Goodacre et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti Limits Infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium

(2009) Luciano A. Moreira et al.   CELL

Characterization and localization of Rickettsia sp. in water beetles of genus Deronectes (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

(2009) Stefan Martin Küchler et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

An Anomalous Type IV Secretion System in Rickettsia Is Evolutionarily Conserved

(2009) Joseph J. Gillespie et al.   PLoS One

Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally

(2009) L. A. Weinert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Identification of cryptic species of Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in the subgenus Culicoides and development of species-specific PCR assays based on barcode regions

(2009) N. Pagès et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

Pathogen Screening and Bionomics of Lutzomyia apache (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Wyoming, USA

(2008) Will K. Reeves et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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