Modification of Insect and Arachnid Behaviours by Vertically Transmitted Endosymbionts: Infections as Drivers of Behavioural Change and Evolutionary Novelty

Spiders do not escape reproductive manipulations by Wolbachia

(2011) Bram Vanthournout et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Infections with Wolbachia and Spiroplasma in the Scathophagidae and other Muscoidea

(2011) Oliver Y. Martin et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Rickettsia influences thermotolerance in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci B biotype

(2011) Marina Brumin et al.   Insect Science

Rickettsia ‘In’ and ‘Out’: Two Different Localization Patterns of a Bacterial Symbiont in the Same Insect Species

(2011) Ayelet Caspi-Fluger et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Spread of a Bacterial Symbiont in an Invasive Whitefly Is Driven by Fitness Benefits and Female Bias

(2011) A. G. Himler et al.   SCIENCE

The Effective Size of Populations Infected With Cytoplasmic Sex-Ratio Distorters

(2010) Jan Engelstädter   GENETICS

Spiroplasma Bacteria Enhance Survival of Drosophila hydei Attacked by the Parasitic Wasp Leptopilina heterotoma

(2010) Jialei Xie et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) Guowu Bian 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

Symbiotic bacteria affect mating choice in Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) A.V. Markov et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Ecology and Evolution of Microbes that Manipulate Host Reproduction

(2009) Jan Engelstädter et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Sex ratio, mating behaviour and Wolbachia infections in a sheetweb spider

(2009) BENGT GUNNARSSON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

(2009) Sara L Goodacre et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

GENOTYPIC VARIATION AND THE ROLE OF DEFENSIVE ENDOSYMBIONTS IN AN ALL-PARTHENOGENETIC HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION

(2009) Christoph Vorburger et al.   EVOLUTION

The effects of and interactions between, Cardinium and Wolbachia in the doubly infected spider mite Bryobia sarothamni

(2009) V I D Ros et al.   HEREDITY

Widespread infections by the bacterial endosymbiont Cardinium in Arachnids

(2009) Oliver Y. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Susceptibility to insecticides in the Q biotype ofBemisia tabaciis correlated with bacterial symbiont densities

(2009) Murad Ghanim et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Hamiltonella defensa, genome evolution of protective bacterial endosymbiont from pathogenic ancestors

(2009) P. H. Degnan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

(2009) T. Hosokawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Variation in Antiviral Protection Mediated by Different Wolbachia Strains in Drosophila simulans

(2009) Sheree E. Osborne et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachia do not walk alone

(2008) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The presence ofRickettsiais associated with increased susceptibility ofBemisia tabaci(Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) to insecticides

(2008) Svetlana Kontsedalov et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

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