wolbachia

b>Wolbachia are maternally inherited intracellular bacterial symbionts that are estimated to infect more than 60% of all insect species...

b>Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria found in many species of arthropods and nematodes...

b>Wolbachia strain wMelPop reduces the longevity of its Drosophila melanogaster host and, when introduced into the mosquito Aedes aegypti, halves its life span...

The over-replicating wMelPop strain of the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis has recently been shown to be capable of inducing immune upregulation and inhibition of pathogen transmission in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes...

b>Wolbachia are common intracellular bacteria that are found in arthropods and nematodes...

..The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia has long been promoted as a potential vehicle for introducing disease-resistance genes into mosquitoes, thereby ..

b>Wolbachia endosymbionts are ubiquitously found in diverse insects including many medical and hygienic pests, causing a variety of reproductive phenotypes, such as cytoplasmic incompatibility, and thereby efficiently spreading in host ..

Research on the intracellular bacterial symbiont Wolbachia has grown on many levels, providing interesting insights on various aspects of the microbe's biology...

The bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis has been shown to increase host resistance to viral infection in native Drosophila hosts and in the normally Wolbachia-free heterologous host Aedes aegypti when infected by Wolbachia from ..

..as single genes or larger regions between coinfections, we sequenced the genome of the obligate intracellular Wolbachia strain wVitB from the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis and compared it against the prophage sequences of the ..

The obligate intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis infects around 20% of all insect species...

Using microarray-based comparative genome hybridization (mCGH), the genomic content of Wolbachia pipientis wMel from Drosophila melanogaster was compared to the closely related Wolbachia from D. innubila (wInn), D...

The discovery of an extraordinarily high level of mobile elements in the genome of Wolbachia, a widespread arthropod and nematode endosymbiont, suggests that this bacterium could be an excellent model for assessing the evolution and ..

The obligate intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis strain wPip induces cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), patterns of crossing sterility, in the Culex pipiens group of mosquitoes. The complete sequence is presented of the 1...

..The Drosophila host is also commonly infected with the widespread endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia pipientis. When DCV coinfects Wolbachia-infected D...

b>Wolbachia is a group of obligate symbiotic bacteria found in many insects and other arthropods. The presence of Wolbachia alters reproduction in the host, but the mechanisms are unknown...

b>Wolbachia is a bacteria endosymbiont that rapidly infects insect populations through a mechanism known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI)...

b>Wolbachia are required for filarial nematode survival and fertility and contribute to the immune responses associated with human filarial diseases...

..The successful transfer of a life-shortening strain of the inherited bacterial symbiont, Wolbachia, into the major mosquito vector of dengue, Aedes aegypti, halved adult life span under laboratory conditions...

b>Wolbachia pipientis bacteria are common endosymbionts of insects that are best known for their ability to increase their prevalence in populations by manipulating host reproductive systems...

By manipulating arthropod reproduction worldwide, the heritable endosymbiont Wolbachia has spread to pandemic levels...

The growth and distribution of the intracellular microbe Wolbachia pipientis during spermatogenesis in several different host/symbiont genetic combinations in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans is described...

b>Wolbachia are gram-negative bacteria that are widespread in nature, carried by the majority of insect species as well as some mites, crustaceans, and filarial nematodes...

..been influential in the genome evolution of the most prevalent bacterial endosymbiont of invertebrates, Wolbachia. First, we show that bacteriophage WO is more widespread in Wolbachia than previously recognized, occurring in ..

A virulent strain of the obligate intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis that shortens insect lifespan has recently been transinfected into the primary mosquito vector of dengue virus, Aedes aegypti L...

b>Wolbachia are vertically transmitted, obligatory intracellular bacteria that infect a great number of species of arthropods and nematodes...

b>Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic bacterium widely present in arthropods and animal-parasitic nematodes. Despite previous efforts, it has never been identified in plant-parasitic nematodes...

..Yet, the genomes of Wolbachia, one of the most abundant bacterial endosymbionts on Earth, are littered with transposable elements, in ..

..However, the presence of endosymbionts, such as Wolbachia pipientis, within some eukaryotic germlines may facilitate bacterial gene transfers to eukaryotic host genomes...

..b>Wolbachia endosymbionts that induce cytoplasmic incompatibility in their hosts depart from this rule, because cytoplasmic ..

The bacteriophage WO was recently characterized in Wolbachia, a strictly intracellular bacterium that causes several reproductive alterations in its arthropod hosts...

..Genes for enzymes of both machineries have been found in the genomes of the cell wall-less genera Chlamydia and Wolbachia, raising questions as to the functionality of the lipid II biosynthesis pathway and reasons for its conservation...

b>Wolbachia are a group of cytoplasmically inherited bacteria that cause reproduction alterations in arthropods, including parthenogenesis, reproductive incompatibility, feminization of genetic males and male killing...

b>Wolbachia pipientis are maternally inherited, endosymbiotic bacteria that are widespread among insects...

..Germline-transmitted animal symbionts, such as Wolbachia pipientis, are well placed to participate in such transfers. In a recent issue of Science, Dunning Hotopp et al...

..Facultative and parasitic bacterial symbionts like Wolbachia have been regarded as evolutionarily distinct from such obligate nutritional mutualists...

..b>Wolbachia are inherited bacteria of arthropods that have recently attracted attention for their potential as new ..

..Alternative strategies include the proposed use of inherited life-shortening agents, such as the Wolbachia bacterium...

..genetic basis for mutualism, as Brugia, like a majority of filarial species, harbors an endosybiotic bacterium (Wolbachia)...

b>Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is expressed when infected males are crossed with either uninfected females or females infected with Wolbachia of different CI specificity...

Bacteria belonging to the genus Wolbachia are associated with a variety of reproductive anomalies in arthropods. Allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (= Standard PCR) routinely has been used to amplify Wolbachia DNA from arthropods...

..Yet, the genome of Wolbachia, one of the most abundant bacterial endosymbionts on Earth, is littered with IS...

b>Wolbachia are among the most abundant symbiotic microbes on earth; they are present in about 66% of all insect species, some spiders, mites and crustaceans, and most filarial nematode species...

..The filariae habour abundant intracellular Wolbachia bacteria, now recognised as obligatory symbionts, and therefore emerging as a novel target for chemotherapy...

..However, Wolbachia, an intracellular alpha-proteobacterium, infecting diverse arthropod and nematode species and best known for the ..

..which the taxonomic distribution appears to be restricted to the obligate intracellular alpha-Proteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis...

b>Wolbachia are intracellular symbionts mainly found in arthropods, causing various sexual alterations on their hosts by unknown mechanisms...

b>Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria found in the reproductive tissue of all major groups of arthropods. They are transmitted vertically from the female hosts to their offspring, in a pattern analogous to mitochondria inheritance...

..to study the effects of rifampicin and oxytetracycline on filarial tissues and on the endosymbiont bacterium, Wolbachia. When tested in vitro at a concentration of 50...

..b>Wolbachia is an inherited obligate, intracellular infection of invertebrates containing taxa that act broadly as both ..

..previously found to be associated with aphids (PASS, or R type) and an alpha-proteobacterium that belongs to the Wolbachia genus...

b>Wolbachia are a group of obligatory intracellular and maternally inherited bacteria found in many arthropod species, including insects, mites, spiders, springtails, crustaceans, as well as in certain nematodes...

Bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are among the most common endosymbionts in the world...

b>Wolbachia is an intracellular bacterium generally described as being a facultative reproductive parasite. However, Wolbachia is necessary for oogenesis completion in the wasp Asobara tabida...

..The analysis also yielded much of the proteome of Wolbachia, the obligate endosymbiont of Bm that also expressed proteins in a stage-specific manner...

..Here we investigate the extent of recombination among housekeeping genes of the endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia. Four housekeeping genes, gltA, dnaA, ftsZ, and groEL, were sequenced from a sample of 22 strains belonging to ..

b>Wolbachia (wBm) is an obligate endosymbiotic bacterium of Brugia malayi, a parasitic filarial nematode of humans and one of the causative agents of lymphatic filariasis...

Infection in Drosophila simulans with the endocellular symbiont Wolbachia pipientis results in egg lethality caused by failure to properly initiate diploid development (cytoplasmic incompatibility, CI)...

The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia is being investigated as a potential control agent in several important vector insect species...

..Strategies of vector suppression and replacement are based upon intracellular Wolbachia bacteria, which occur naturally in many insect populations...

..candidates fostering symbiont-driven speciation in arthropods are intracellular bacteria belonging to the genus Wolbachia. They are maternally inherited symbionts of many arthropods capable of manipulating host reproductive biology ..

..melanogaster in Brazil, although part of one locus appears to show a recombinant history. Implications for the origin and history of male-killing Spiroplasma in D. melanogaster are discussed...

..Previous efforts screened relatively few Drosophila lineages, mainly for Wolbachia. We conducted an extensive survey of potentially heritable endosymbionts from any bacterial lineage via PCR ..

..For an alternative strategy to MDA, we investigated the potential role of Wolbachia to control filarial transmission...

b>Wolbachia are maternally inherited endosymbiotic alpha-Proteobacteria infecting a wide range of arthropods. Wolbachia induce feminization in many terrestrial isopod species, particularly in the genus Armadillidium (Crustacea, Oniscidea)...

b>Wolbachia bacteria are vertically transmitted endosymbionts that disturb the reproduction of many arthropods thereby enhancing their spread in host populations...

b>Wolbachia-like bacteria were observed in the egg cells of golden orb-weaving spider, Nephila clavata, by means of transmission electron microscopy...

b>Wolbachia are obligatory intracellular and maternally inherited bacteria, known to infect many species of arthropod...

b>Wolbachia is an endosymbiont of diverse arthropod lineages that can induce various alterations of host reproduction for its own benefice...

Before maternally inherited bacterial symbionts like Wolbachia, which cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI; reduced hatch rate) when infected males mate with uninfected females, can be used in a program to control vector-borne diseases ..

..64 sampling localities was employed to infer the phylogeography of the maternally inherited alpha-proteobacteria Wolbachia. Phylogenetic analyses, from three symbiont genes and 24 mtDNA genomes (excluding the A + T-rich region), showed ..

Intracellular bacteria of the genus Wolbachia (alpha Proteobacteria) induce cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in many arthropod species, including spider mites, but not all Wolbachia cause CI...

b>Wolbachia pipientis is an intracellular endosymbiont producing reproductive alterations in its hosts. This bacterium have been reported in many arthropods and nematodes...

b>Wolbachia pipientis is an endosymbiotic bacterium common to arthropods and filarial nematodes. This study presents the first survey and characterization of Wolbachia pipientis that infect spiders...

..In this paper, we show that spatial heterogeneity in the occurrence of the male-killing Wolbachia wBol1 in the tropical butterfly Hypolimnas bolina is caused by a second infection that can exclude the male-..

..Here we thoroughly investigated the bacterial genes derived from a Wolbachia endosymbiont on the nuclear genome of the beetle Callosobruchus chinensis...

b>Wolbachia are obligatory endosymbionts in many species of filarial nematodes...

..Both Cx. p. quinquefasciatus and Cx. p. pipiens are infected with the endosymbiotic bacteria Wolbachia pipientis...

b>Wolbachia are rickettsial intracellular symbionts of arthropods and nematodes. In arthropods, they act as selfish genetic elements and manipulate host reproduction, including sex-ratio distortion and cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI)...

The human filarial nematode Brugia malayi contains an endosymbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia. We used real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (QPCR) and microscopy to investigate the population dynamics of the bacterium-nematode ..

..Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) caused by endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria is thought to play an important role in restricting gene flow and the evolution of the Culex complex...

b>Wolbachia are well known as bacterial symbionts of arthropods, where they are reproductive parasites, but have also been described from nematode hosts, where the symbiotic interaction has features of mutualism...

The role of Wolbachia endosymbionts in shaping the mitochondrial diversity of their arthropod host depends on the effects they have on host reproduction and on the mode of transmission of the bacteria...

The eubacterial genus Wolbachia comprises one of the most abundant groups of obligate intracellular bacteria, and it has a host range that spans the phyla Arthropoda and Nematoda...

..These arthropods were also screened for the presence of the better-known reproductive manipulator, Wolbachia. Six per cent of the species screened tested positive for Cardinium, compared with 24% positive for Wolbachia...

The density of the endosymbiont Wolbachia can influence the expression of the crossing sterilities known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), and also its rate of maternal transmission...

b>Wolbachia are obligate, maternally inherited, intracellular bacteria that infect numerous insects and other invertebrates...

..removed from Greek dogs and its Wolbachia endosymbionts...

..We screened 20 strains of 12 agriculturally relevant herbivorous and predatory mite species for infection with Wolbachia, Cardinium and Spiroplasma by the use of PCR...

b>Wolbachia bacteria are intracellular symbionts of many arthropod species. Their spread through host populations is promoted by drastic alterations imposed on their hosts' reproductive physiology...

..Here we investigate the conflict over sex ratio between the cytoplasmic bacterium Wolbachia and the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae Koch...

Cytoplasmically inherited symbiotic Wolbachia bacteria are known to induce a diversity of phenotypes on their numerous arthropod hosts including cytoplasmic incompatibility, male-killing, thelytokous parthenogenesis, and feminization...

b>Wolbachia are maternally inherited intracellular bacteria that infect a wide range of arthropods and nematodes and are associated with various reproductive abnormalities in their hosts...

..and epidemiologically characterize populations of the mycophagous fly Drosophila innubila and its male-killing Wolbachia endosymbiont, with the aim of integrating the local through global nature of this association...

Maternally transmitted bacteria of the genus Wolbachia are obligate, intracellular symbionts that are responsible for cytoplasmic incompatibility in a wide range of arthropods such as insects and mites...

..This study uses a male-killing Wolbachia endosymbiont and its host Drosophila innubila to experimentally address the potential for multilevel selection ..

It was recently demonstrated that Wolbachia intracellular bacteria (alpha 2 proteobacteria, Rickettsiales) living in filarial nematodes are obligatory symbionts of their hosts...

..and rapid speciation can be biased by the occurrence of hybridization and reproductive endosymbionts such as Wolbachia. For example, patterns of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation can be obscured by mitotypes hitchhiking on ..

..the 5S ribosomal RNA gene spacer region sequence of the parasite and the 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence of its Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria (Rickettsiales) supported the morphological and biological arguments that O...

..Active compounds may also be tested for their effects on other organisms that possess the target. This will provide the basis for discovering a new class of drugs that may be used in veterinary and human medicine. ..

..Rickettsia - like Wolbachia bacteria are essential symbionts of the major pathogenic filarial nematode parasites of humans, including the ..

..Rickettsia - like Wolbachia bacteria are essential symbionts of the major pathogenic filarial nematode parasites of humans, including the ..

..previously classified as Wolbachia sp.) common within tissues of dog ticks, Dermacentor variabilis...

One of the most successful intracellular bacteria is Wolbachia, harbored by thousands of arthropods and nematodes. Wolbachia have recently been shown cause blindness in humans upon release from their nematode host Onchocerca volvulus...

..by this new research program include both the unique AARS expressed in filarial parasites and those within the Wolbachia endosymbiotic bacteria that are essential for worm viability...

..Most of the human filarial parasite species harbor an endosymbiotic bacterium of the genus Wolbachia. These endo-bacteria are essential, as elimination of the endosymbiont leads to sterilization of the adult ..

..3) engineered underdominance, 4) insertion of loaded autonomous transposons, 5) infection with transgenic Wolbachia strains. The potential for using novel transgenic manipulations will be examined with more general models...

..into natural tsetse populations by cytoplasmic incompatibility phenomenon mediated by tsetse's symbiont, Wolbachia. We propose to investigate the biogeography of the human disease vector species, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, its ..

..into natural tsetse populations by cytoplasmic incompatibility phenomenon mediated by tsetse's symbiont, Wolbachia. We propose to investigate the biogeography of the human disease vector species, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, its ..

..into natural tsetse populations by cytoplasmic incompatibility phenomenon mediated by tsetse's symbiont, Wolbachia. We propose to investigate the biogeography of the human disease vector species, Glossina fuscipes fuscipes, its ..

..is sought of how and why Sxl functions in germ cells and how the obligate intracellular parasitic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis interacts with it in that cell type...

..Here, we propose a novel strategy in which releases of male Ae. polynesiensis mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria result in the sterilization of female mosquitoes at a field site endemic for filariasis transmission...

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Intracellular Wolbachia bacteria infect a diverse range of invertebrate hosts, including medically important disease vectors...

..Here, we propose a novel strategy in which releases of male Ae. polynesiensis mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria result in the sterilization of female mosquitoes at a field site endemic for filariasis transmission...

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Intracellular Wolbachia bacteria infect a diverse range of invertebrate hosts, including medically important disease vectors...

..This work also has important relevance for bioterrorism issues because it will provide insight into how intrinsic vector genetic factors in mosquito populations affect the epidemiology of a released Category B agent. ..

..This work also has important relevance for bioterrorism issues because it will provide insight into how intrinsic vector genetic factors in mosquito populations affect the epidemiology of a released Category B agent. ..

..b>Wolbachia are maternally inherited endosymbionts associated with cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) i.e...

..These studies will contribute to an increased understanding of the genetics and physiology of the mosquito, a disease vector with considerable impact on human health and productivity...

..These studies will contribute new information and analytical approaches to investigate gene expression and provide molecular infrastructure essential to disruption of disease transmission in genetically transformed mosquitoes. ..

..The work will include identification of exon-intron organization and recovery of upstream flanking DNA, which will be analyzed for potential regulatory elements. ..

..The intracellular bacterium, Wolbachia pipientis, provides an attractive drive mechanism, because it favors its own transmission through a reproductive ..

..These studies provide cloned genes, molecular approaches, and characterization of regulatory processes that can potentially be manipulated to interfere with disease transmission by blood-feeding arthropods. ..

..More excitingly, they might help us identify the epitope that forms the target of host defense raising the possibility, long-term, of generating an immuno-prophylactic strategy against filarial infections. ..

..b) the influence of alleles at the Nramp and iNOS loci on murine susceptibility to B. malayi. (c). the role of cytokines controlling the induction of nitric oxide in the resistance of NOD/LtSz-scid mice to B. malayi. ..