Wolbachia are common intracellular bacteria that are found in arthropods and nematodes.
These alphaproteobacteria endosymbionts are transmitted vertically through host eggs and …

Inherited microorganisms that manipulate the reproduction of their host are a common
feature in arthropod biology. Although research initially concentrated on why these …

The w Mel infection of Drosophila melanogaster was successfully transferred into Aedes
aegypti mosquitoes where it has the potential to suppress dengue and other arboviruses …

Maternal transmission is the main transmission pathway of facultative bacterial
endosymbionts, but phylogenetically distant insect hosts harbor closely related …

Bacterial symbionts are widespread in insects and other animals. Most of them are
predominantly vertically transmitted, along with their hosts' genes, and thus extend the …

The Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project aims to sequence all described terrestrial and
aquatic eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland. Reference genome sequences are …

Wolbachia are endosymbionts found in many insects with the potential to suppress
vectorborne diseases, particularly through interfering with pathogen transmission …

Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacteria that commonly spread through host populations
by causing cytoplasmic incompatibility, often expressed as reduced egg hatch when …

Most heritable information in eukaryotic cells is encoded in the nuclear genome, with
inheritance patterns following classic Mendelian segregation. Genomes residing in the …

The past years have revealed that inherited bacterial endosymbionts are important sources
of evolutionary novelty for their eukaryotic hosts. In this review we discuss a fundamental …