Wolbachia is a genus of gram-negative bacteria that can either infect many species of arthropod as an intracellular parasite, or act as a mutualistic...
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and cats. Wolbachia infection are the most common infection in arthropods today, and over 40% of arthropods have contracted it. Wolbachia can be transmitted...
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Trichogramma (section Wolbachia in Trichogramma)
parthenogenesis-inducing Wolbachia may be a difficult and rare phenomenon. However, when looking at the Wolbachia-host associations, the Trichogramma-Wolbachia form a monophyletic...
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which Wolbachia hinders uninfected individuals from producing offspring. Wolbachia has formed a symbiotic relationship with D. simulans. Wolbachia infects...
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of Wolbachia. Since Wolbachia is also maternally transmitted, it was found that the WNV-resistant phenotype is directly related to the Wolbachia infection...
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determined by infection with parasitic, endosymbiotic bacteria of the genus Wolbachia. The bacterium can only be transmitted via infected ova, and the presence...
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Mosquito control (section Wolbachia method)
In the Wolbachia method, both male and female mosquitos that carry the Wolbachia bacterium are released into natural populations. Wolbachia boosts the...
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confused flour beetle displays mutualistic behaviors with the Wolbachia bacteria. The Wolbachia bacteria can display either mutualistic or parasitic behaviors...
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many arthropod species that is caused by intracellular parasites such as Wolbachia. These bacteria reside in the cytoplasm of the host cells (hence the name...
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Aedes aegypti (section Infection with Wolbachia)
population control. In 2016 research into the use of a bacterium called Wolbachia as a method of biocontrol was published showing that invasion of Ae. aegypti...
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Muscidifurax uniraptor (section Wolbachia symbiosis)
the housefly Musca domestica and the stable fly Stomoxys calcitrans. Wolbachia is a cytoplasmically inherited intracellular bacterium. It can generally...
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possibly because of infection of the females' gametes by endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria. The various generations differentiate both in their appearance...
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Wolbachia pipientis is an intracellular bacterium that is an endosymbiont of D. immitis. All heartworms are thought to be infected with Wolbachia to...
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closely related species. Ten subspecies are recognised. The species carries Wolbachia endosymbionts, which is an alpha-proteobacterium that is known to modify...
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Phytoseiidae (section Wolbachia infections)
Wolbachia species have been detected in many species of Phytoseiidae, both in the field and in the lab. Although most research focuses on Wolbachia in...
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endosymbiotic relationship with strains of the bacterium Wolbachia. In the absence of Wolbachia, larval development of O. volvulus is disrupted or ceased...
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other spirochete and protozoan blood parasites. It is also used to stain Wolbachia cells in host tissue. Giemsa stain is a classic blood film stain for peripheral...
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transmission of Wolbachia-mediated blocking of dengue virus infection of Aedes aegypti Assessing the epidemiological effect of wolbachia for dengue control...
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Brugia malayi (section Relationship with Wolbachia)
survival and immune evasion. Since the discovery of the importance of Wolbachia bacteria in the life cycle of B. malayi and other nematodes, novel drug...
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nematodes) live in symbiosis with Wolbachia, a type of intracellular parasite bacteria. In such cases the Wolbachia are necessary to the survival of the...
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Vertical transmission (section Wolbachia)
insects. It's estimated that about 70% of all insects carry the bacteria Wolbachia, which can be transmitted vertically as well as horizontally. Depending...
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aposymbiotic wasps without Wolbachia are unable to reproduce. This relationship between Asobara tabida wasps and Wolbachia is an important model for insect...
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Altica cirsicola (section Wolbachia infection)
high Wolbachia infection rates are seen in Altica beetles. Cytoplasmic incompatibility is a form of mating incompatibility that is caused by Wolbachia infection...
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2015, the Wolbachia bacteria is used to halt the reproduction of the fictional "vocal cord parasites". At the time, large-scale uses of Wolbachia to control...
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which lays its eggs into ticks. It seems to use a symbiotic bacteria, Wolbachia pipientis, to weaken the tick's immune system. Ixodiphagus hookeri is...
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nematode worms cannot reproduce, or even survive, without infection by Wolbachia bacteria. Lynn Margulis and others have argued, following Peter Kropotkin's...
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a Huck Scholar in Entomology. Her research investigates the bacterium Wolbachia as a strategy for biocontrol and to better understand the basis of its...
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reproductive cycle. Through laboratory methods naturally-occurring bacteria Wolbachia infect healthy male mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti. Subsequently...
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Nasonia vitripennis (section Wolbachia)
homozygous or hemizygous. Wolbachia are maternally inherited, and exist in multiple insect species. Multiple strains of Wolbachia have been noted in even...
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low genetic diversity among groups of isolated Chrysomelidae, and use Wolbachia species as a genetic marker. Crioceris asparagi (Linnaeus, 1758), common...
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