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

A Novel Highly Divergent Protein Family Identified from a Viviparous Insect by RNA-seq Analysis: A Potential Target for Tsetse Fly-Specific Abortifacients

(2014) Joshua B. Benoit et al.   PLoS Genetics

Wolbachia association with the tsetse fly, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, reveals high levels of genetic diversity and complex evolutionary dynamics

(2013) Rebecca E Symula et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

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

Lateral transfers of insertion sequences between Wolbachia, Cardinium and Rickettsia bacterial endosymbionts

(2013) O Duron   HEREDITY

Progressive Recombination Suppression and Differentiation in Recently Evolved Neo-sex Chromosomes

(2013) Heini M. Natri et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Localization of Wolbachia-like gene transcripts and peptides in adult Onchocerca flexuosa worms indicates tissue specific expression

(2013) Samantha N McNulty et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia and the Bacterial Species Concept

(2013) Kirsten Maren Ellegaard et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evaluating Paratransgenesis as a Potential Control Strategy for African Trypanosomiasis

(2013) Jan Medlock et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

The genetics of sex chromosomes: evolution and implications for hybrid incompatibility

(2012) Norman A. Johnson et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

OmpA-Mediated Biofilm Formation Is Essential for the Commensal Bacterium Sodalis glossinidius To Colonize the Tsetse Fly Gut

(2012) Michele A. Maltz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

SCARPA: scaffolding reads with practical algorithms

(2012) N. Donmez et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in laboratory and natural populations of different species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina)

(2012) Vangelis Doudoumis et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The complexity of virus systems: the case of endosymbionts

(2012) Jason A Metcalf et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The genome of the heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, reveals drug and vaccine targets

(2012) Christelle Godel et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Obligate Symbionts Activate Immune System Development in the Tsetse Fly

(2012) B. L. Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Tsetse flies: Their biology and control using area-wide integrated pest management approaches

(2012) Marc J.B. Vreysen et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Tissue distribution and transmission routes for the tsetse fly endosymbionts

(2012) Séverine Balmand et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

A post-assembly genome-improvement toolkit (PAGIT) to obtain annotated genomes from contigs

(2012) Martin T Swain et al.   Nature Protocols

Still a Host of Hosts for Wolbachia: Analysis of Recent Data Suggests That 40% of Terrestrial Arthropod Species Are Infected

(2012) Roman Zug et al.   PLoS One

Speciation by symbiosis

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

Short- and Long-term Evolutionary Dynamics of Bacterial Insertion Sequences: Insights from Wolbachia Endosymbionts

(2011) Nicolas Cerveau et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) T. Walker et al.   NATURE

Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

(2011) A. A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Microbiome influences on insect host vector competence

(2011) Brian Weiss et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Tsetse Immune System Maturation Requires the Presence of Obligate Symbionts in Larvae

(2011) Brian L. Weiss et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Wolbachia Symbiont Infections Induce Strong Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Tsetse Fly Glossina morsitans

(2011) Uzma Alam et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

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

Endosymbiont DNA in Endobacteria-Free Filarial Nematodes Indicates Ancient Horizontal Genetic Transfer

(2010) Samantha N. McNulty et al.   PLoS One

Phage WO of Wolbachia: lambda of the endosymbiont world

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

Improving draft assemblies by iterative mapping and assembly of short reads to eliminate gaps

(2010) Isheng J Tsai et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

ABACAS: algorithm-based automatic contiguation of assembled sequences

(2009) S. Assefa et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer

(2009) Naruo Nikoh et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer between Wolbachia and the mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2009) Lisa Klasson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Wolbachia: more than just a bug in insects genitals

(2009) Aggeliki Saridaki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Tripartite interactions between tsetse flies, Sodalis glossinidius and trypanosomes—An epidemiological approach in two historical human African trypanosomiasis foci in Cameroon

(2009) Oumarou Farikou et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Lateral Phage Transfer in Obligate Intracellular Bacteria (Wolbachia): Verification from Natural Populations

(2009) M. E. Chafee et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Longicorn beetle that vectors pinewood nematode carries many Wolbachia genes on an autosome

(2009) T. Aikawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Origin and evolution of Y chromosomes: Drosophila tales

(2009) A. Bernardo Carvalho et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Functional diversity of ankyrin repeats in microbial proteins

(2009) Souhaila Al-Khodor et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Towards the Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis

(2009) Giuliano Cecchi et al.   International Journal of Health Geographics

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

(2008) Ramy K Aziz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

An Ancient Horizontal Gene Transfer between Mosquito and the Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia pipientis

(2008) Megan Woolfit 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

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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

The Wolbachia endosymbiont of Brugia malayi has an active phosphoglycerate mutase: a candidate target for anti-filarial therapies

(2008) Jeremy M. Foster et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

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

(2008) X. Pan et al.   SCIENCE

The evolution of restricted recombination in sex chromosomes

(2008) Roberta Bergero et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Eliminating Human African Trypanosomiasis: Where Do We Stand and What Comes Next?

(2008) Pere P Simarro et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: Evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genes

(2007) N. Nikoh et al.   GENOME RESEARCH