Aedes mosquito-transmitted diseases, such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya, are
becoming major global health emergencies while old threats, such as yellow fever, are re …

Human pathogens that are transmitted by insects are a global problem, particularly those
vectored by mosquitoes; for example, malaria parasites transmitted by Anopheles species …

The radiation-based sterile insect technique (SIT) has successfully suppressed field
populations of several insect pest species, but its effect on mosquito vector control has been …

The range of the mosquito Aedes aegypti continues to expand, putting more than two billion
people at risk of arboviral infection. The sterile insect technique (SIT) has been used to …

Dengue has enormous health impacts globally. A novel approach to decrease dengue
incidence involves the introduction of Wolbachia endosymbionts that block dengue virus …

Wolbachia are obligate intracellular bacteria 1 that infect arthropods, including
approximately two-thirds of insect species 2. Wolbachia manipulate insect reproduction by …

Background: Ae. aegypti mosquitoes stably transfected with the intracellular bacterium
Wolbachia pipientis (wMel strain) have been deployed for biocontrol of dengue and related …

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

Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is the most common symbiont-induced reproductive
manipulation. Specifically, symbiont-induced sperm modifications cause catastrophic mitotic …

Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted symbiotic bacterium of insects that has been proposed
as a potential agent for the control of insect-transmitted diseases. One of the major …