Male-killing virus in a noctuid moth Spodoptera litura

K Nagamine, Y Kanno, K Sahara, T Fujimoto… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
A female-biased sex ratio is considered advantageous for the cytoplasmic elements that
inhabit sexually reproducing organisms. There are numerous examples of bacterial …

Expression of the Wolbachia male‐killing factor Oscar impairs dosage compensation in lepidopteran embryos

T Fukui, T Kiuchi, K Tomihara, T Muro… - FEBS …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria in insects that can manipulate the sexual development
and reproduction by male killing or other methods. We have recently identified a Wolbachia …

Cell-based assays and comparative genomics revealed the conserved and hidden effects of Wolbachia on insect sex determination

H Arai, B Herran, TN Sugimoto, M Miyata… - PNAS …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
It is advantageous for maternally transmitted endosymbionts to skew the sex ratio of their
hosts toward females. Some endosymbiotic bacteria, such as Wolbachia, cause their insect …

Genomic insights into Spiroplasma endosymbionts that induce male-killing and protective phenotypes in the pea aphid

H Arai, F Legeai, D Kageyama, A Sugio… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract The endosymbiotic bacteria Spiroplasma (Mollicutes) infect diverse plants and
arthropods, and some of which induce male killing, where male hosts are killed during …

Two male-killing Wolbachia from Drosophila birauraia that are closely related but distinct in genome structure

H Arai, M Watada, D Kageyama - Royal Society Open …, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Insects harbour diverse maternally inherited bacteria and viruses, some of which have
evolved to kill the male progeny of their hosts (male killing: MK). The fly species Drosophila …

Frontiers in Wolbachia biology 2023

T Fukatsu, Y Gottlieb, G Tsiamis, E McGraw… - Frontiers in …, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Wolbachia is likely the most successful endosymbiotic bacteria associated with insects and
other arthropods, as well as nematodes (Werren et al., 2008). Over the past several …