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New criteria for selecting the origin of DNA replication in Wolbachia and closely related bacteriaPanagiotis Ioannidis
Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, Agrinio, Greece
BMC Genomics 8:182. 2007....- The tripartite associations between bacteriophage, Wolbachia, and arthropodsSeth R Bordenstein
Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
PLoS Pathog 2:e43. 2006..Clarifying the roles of lytic and lysogenic phage development in Wolbachia biology will effectively structure inquiries into this research topic... - Host genotype determines cytoplasmic incompatibility type in the haplodiploid genus NasoniaSeth R Bordenstein
Department of Biology, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
Genetics 164:223-33. 2003..On the basis of these findings, we propose a model for how different CI types evolve in haplodiploids due to selection on nuclear genes modifying CI... - Bacteriophage flux in endosymbionts (Wolbachia): infection frequency, lateral transfer, and recombination ratesSeth R Bordenstein
The Marine Biological Laboratory, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Mol Biol Evol 21:1981-91. 2004..Gene transfer by bacteriophages could drive significant evolutionary change in the genomes of intracellular bacteria that are typically considered highly stable and prone to genomic degradation... - Evolutionary genomics: transdomain gene transfersSeth R Bordenstein
Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Curr Biol 17:R935-6. 2007..A new study showing promiscuous insertions of bacterial endosymbiont genes into invertebrate genomes ushers in a shift in this paradigm... - Mobile DNA in obligate intracellular bacteriaSeth R Bordenstein
Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Nat Rev Microbiol 3:688-99. 2005..However, recent findings from complete genome sequences of obligate intracellular species and their mobile genetic associates favour the abandonment of these wholesale terms for a more complex and tantalizing picture... - Discovery of a novel Wolbachia super group in IsopteraSeth Bordenstein
The Marine Biological Laboratory, The Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Curr Microbiol 51:393-8. 2005..It also suggests that surveys of Wolbachia in more earlier-originating (and under-sampled) groups of arthropods are more apt to reveal novel genetic diversity... - Bidirectional incompatibility among divergent Wolbachia and incompatibility level differences among closely related Wolbachia in NasoniaS R Bordenstein
Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Heredity 99:278-87. 2007..Understanding the diversity and evolution of new incompatibility strains will contribute to a fuller understanding of Wolbachia invasion dynamics and Wolbachia-assisted speciation in certain groups of insects... - Widespread recombination throughout Wolbachia genomesLaura Baldo
Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, USA
Mol Biol Evol 23:437-49. 2006.... - Multilocus sequence typing system for the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientisLaura Baldo
Department of Biology, University of California, 900 University Avenue, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 72:7098-110. 2006..The central database for storing and organizing Wolbachia bacterial and host information can be accessed at http://pubmlst.org/wolbachia/... - Genome evolution in an insect cell: distinct features of an ant-bacterial partnershipJennifer J Wernegreen
Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
Biol Bull 204:221-31. 2003..This review describes some recent insights into the evolutionary genetics of obligate insect-bacteria symbioses, with a particular focus on an intriguing association between the bacterial endosymbiont Blochmannia and its ant hosts... - Parasitism and mutualism in Wolbachia: what the phylogenomic trees can and cannot saySeth R Bordenstein
Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Mol Biol Evol 26:231-41. 2009..We suggest that the ancestry of mutualism and parasitism is not resolvable without more suitable outgroups or complete genome sequences from all Wolbachia supergroups... - Toward a Wolbachia multilocus sequence typing system: discrimination of Wolbachia strains present in Drosophila speciesCharalampos Paraskevopoulos
Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina, 2 Seferi St, 30100, Agrinio, Greece
Curr Microbiol 53:388-95. 2006..The results demonstrate the discriminatory power of MLST for identifying strains and clonal lineages of Wolbachia and provide a robust foundation for studying the ecology and evolution of this widespread endosymbiont... - Comparative sequence analysis of IS50/Tn5 transposaseWilliam S Reznikoff
Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, 433 Babcock Dr, Madison, WI 53706, USA
J Bacteriol 186:8240-7. 2004..The results were also used to compare the IS50 transposase with the more distantly related transposase encoded by IS10...