Evolutionary Ecology of Wolbachia Releases for Disease Control

PA Ross, M Turelli, AA Hoffmann - Annual review of genetics, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic Alphaproteobacteria that can suppress insect-borne
diseases through decreasing host virus transmission (population replacement) or through …

Wolbachia strains for disease control: ecological and evolutionary considerations

AA Hoffmann, PA Ross, G Rašić - Evolutionary applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia are endosymbionts found in many insects with the potential to suppress
vectorborne diseases, particularly through interfering with pathogen transmission …

Fitness of wAlbB Wolbachia infection in Aedes aegypti: parameter estimates in an outcrossed background and potential for population invasion

JK Axford, PA Ross, HL Yeap… - … American journal of …, 2016 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Wolbachia endosymbionts are potentially useful tools for suppressing disease transmission
by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes because Wolbachia can interfere with the transmission of …

Bacterial endosymbionts are common among, but not necessarily within, insect species

EJ Sazama, SP Ouellette… - Environmental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bacterial endosymbionts, particularly Wolbachia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae),
Rickettsia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae), and Cardinium (Bacteroidales: Bacteroidaceae) …

Wolbachia versus dengue: Evolutionary forecasts

JJ Bull, M Turelli - Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2013 - academic.oup.com
A novel form of biological control is being applied to the dengue virus. The agent is the
maternally transmitted bacterium Wolbachia, naturally absent from the main dengue vector …

Incidence of Wolbachia in aquatic insects

EJ Sazama, MJ Bosch, CS Shouldis… - Ecology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia is a genus of intracellular bacteria typically found within the reproductive systems
of insects that manipulates those systems of their hosts. While current estimates of …

Impacts of Low Temperatures on Wolbachia (Rickettsiales: Rickettsiaceae)-Infected Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

MJ Lau, PA Ross… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
In recent decades, the occurrence and distribution of arboviral diseases transmitted by
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes has increased. In a new control strategy, populations of …

Empirical Dynamic Modelling Identifies different Responses of Aedes Polynesiensis Subpopulations to Natural Environmental Variables

F Grziwotz, JF Strauß, C Hsieh, A Telschow - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
To control mosquito populations for managing vector-borne diseases, a critical need is to
identify and predict their response to causal environmental variables. However, most …

Infections of Wolbachia may destabilize mosquito population dynamics

A Telschow, F Grziwotz, P Crain, T Miki… - Journal of Theoretical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent efforts in controlling mosquito-borne diseases focus on biocontrol strategies that
incapacitate pathogens inside mosquitoes by altering the mosquito's microbiome. A case in …

[HTML][HTML] Modified technique of Wolbachia removal from Malaysian Aedes albopictus

S Joanne, I Vythilingam, N Yugavathy… - Asian Pacific journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To develop an artificial and modified Wolbachia removal technique using
tetracycline from naturally Wolbachia infected Aedes albopictus (Ae. albopictus) so as to be …