Ecology and evolution of sex in aphids

JC Simon, C Rispe, P Sunnucks - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2002 - cell.com
Many theories attempt to explain why sexual reproduction has invaded life so thoroughly.
Some are plausible, but there remains a need for evolutionary biologists to identify the main …

A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, butterflies, and beyond: broad molecular surveys and a systematic review

JA Russell, CF Funaro, YM Giraldo… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Maternally transmitted bacteria have been important players in the evolution of insects and
other arthropods, affecting their nutrition, defense, development, and reproduction …

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

K Hilgenboecker, P Hammerstein… - FEMS microbiology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria found in many species of arthropods and nematodes.
They manipulate the reproduction of their arthropod hosts in various ways, may play a role in …

Wolbachia infection frequencies in insects: evidence of a global equilibrium?

JH Werren, DM Windsor - … of the Royal Society of London …, 2000 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Wolbachia are a group of cytoplasmically inherited bacteria that cause reproduction
alterations in arthropods, including parthenogenesis, reproductive incompatibility …

[LIVRE][B] Sex allocation

S West - 2009 - degruyter.com
Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

Phylogenomic analysis of Wolbachia genomes from the Darwin Tree of Life biodiversity genomics project

E Vancaester, M Blaxter - PLoS Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Phylogenetic evidence for horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in host-parasitoid associations.

F Vavre, F Fleury, D Lepetit, P Fouillet… - … biology and evolution, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Endosymbiotic Wolbachia infect a number of arthropod species in which they can affect the
reproductive system. While maternally transmitted, unlike mitochondria their molecular …

Distribution of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in arthropods

E Zchori‐Fein, SJ Perlman - Molecular ecology, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 'Candidatus Cardinium', a recently described bacterium from the Bacteroidetes
group, is involved in diverse reproduction alterations of its arthropod hosts, including …

Evaluating DNA barcoding for species identification and discovery in European gracillariid moths

C Lopez-Vaamonde, N Kirichenko, A Cama… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Gracillariidae is the most species-rich leaf-mining moth family with over 2,000 described
species worldwide. In Europe, there are 263 valid named species recognized, many of …

Male–killing Wolbachia in two species of insect

GDD Hurst, FM Jiggins… - … of the Royal …, 1999 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The inherited bacterium Wolbachia spreads through the manipulation of host reproduction,
and has been suggested to be an important factor in arthropod evolution, from host …