Exemplar Abstract for Wolbachia bourtzisii Ramírez-Puebla et al. 2015 and Wolbachia pipientis Hertig 1936 (Approved Lists 1980).

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Thomas Parker ◽  
George M Garrity
Keyword(s):  
Wolbachia Pipientis

Генотип эндосимбионта Wolbachia pipientis влияет на метаболизм октопамина у самок Drosophila melanogaster

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-612
Author(s):  
Н. В. Адоньева ◽  
Е. В. Бурдина ◽  
Р. А. Быков ◽  
Н. Е. Грунтенко ◽  
И. Ю. Раушенбах
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis

Three strains of Wolbachia pipientis and high rates of infection in Iranian sandfly species

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bordbar ◽  
S. Soleimani ◽  
F. Fardid ◽  
M.R. Zolfaghari ◽  
P. Parvizi
Keyword(s):  
Protein Gene ◽  
Surface Protein ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis ◽  
Major Surface Protein ◽  
Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis ◽  
Geographical Regions ◽  
Surface Protein Gene ◽  
Major Surface ◽  
Zoonotic Visceral Leishmaniasis

AbstractIndividual wild-caught sandflies from Iran were examined for infections of Wolbachia pipientis by targeting the major surface protein gene wsp of this intracellular α-proteobacterium. In total, 638 male and female sandflies were screened, of which 241 were found to be positive for one of three wsp haplotypes. Regardless of geographical origins and habitats, Phlebotomus (Phlebotomus) papatasi and other sandfly species were found to be infected with one common, widespread strain of A-group W. pipientis (Turk 54, GenBank accession EU780683; AY288297). In addition, a new A-group haplotype (Turk07, GenBank accession KC576916) was isolated from Phlebotomus (Paraphlebotomus) mongolensis and Phlebotomus (Pa.) caucasicus, and a new B-group haplotype (AZ2331, GenBank accession JX488735) was isolated from Phlebotomus (Larroussius) perfiliewi. Therefore, Wolbachia was found to occur in at least three of the incriminated vectors of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis and zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis in different geographical regions of Iran. It may provide a new tool for the future control of leishmaniasis.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Wolbachia pipientis Gene Expression Across the Drosophila melanogaster Life Cycle

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 2843-2856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Gutzwiller ◽  
Catarina R. Carmo ◽  
Danny E. Miller ◽  
Danny W. Rice ◽  
Irene L. G. Newton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis

scholarly journals Titer regulation in arthropod-Wolbachia symbioses

2019 ◽  
Vol 366 (23) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio López-Madrigal ◽  
Elves H Duarte
Keyword(s):  
Wolbachia Infection ◽  
Intracellular Bacteria ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis ◽  
Host Fitness ◽  
Symbiotic Associations ◽  
Infection Dynamics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Fine Regulation

ABSTRACT Symbiosis between intracellular bacteria (endosymbionts) and animals are widespread. The alphaproteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis is known to maintain a variety of symbiotic associations, ranging from mutualism to parasitism, with a wide range of invertebrates. Wolbachia infection might deeply affect host fitness (e.g. reproductive manipulation and antiviral protection), which is thought to explain its high prevalence in nature. Bacterial loads significantly influence both the infection dynamics and the extent of bacteria-induced host phenotypes. Hence, fine regulation of bacterial titers is considered as a milestone in host-endosymbiont interplay. Here, we review both environmental and biological factors modulating Wolbachia titers in arthropods.

scholarly journals Increased locomotor activity and metabolism of Aedes aegypti infected with a life-shortening strain of Wolbachia pipientis

2009 ◽  
Vol 212 (10) ◽  
pp. 1436-1441 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Evans ◽  
E. P. Caragata ◽  
C. J. McMeniman ◽  
M. Woolfit ◽  
D. C. Green ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Locomotor Activity ◽  
Aedes Aegypti ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis

scholarly journals Discovery of Putative Small Non-Coding RNAs from the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Wolbachia pipientis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. e0118595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Woolfit ◽  
Manjula Algama ◽  
Jonathan M. Keith ◽  
Elizabeth A. McGraw ◽  
Jean Popovici
Keyword(s):  
Intracellular Bacterium ◽  
Obligate Intracellular Bacterium ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis ◽  
Obligate Intracellular ◽  
Non Coding Rnas

scholarly journals Taxonomic status of the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis

2007 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Lo ◽  
C. Paraskevopoulos ◽  
K. Bourtzis ◽  
S. L. O'Neill ◽  
J. H. Werren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
Culex Pipiens ◽  
Type Strain ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Intracellular Bacterium ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis ◽  
Molecular Sequence ◽  
Filarial Nematodes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Medical Importance

Wolbachia pipientis is a maternally inherited, intracellular bacterium found in more than 20 % of all insects, as well as numerous other arthropods and filarial nematodes. It has been the subject of a growing number of studies in recent decades, because of the remarkable effects it has on its arthropod hosts, its potential as a tool for biological control of arthropods of agricultural and medical importance and its use as a target for treatment of filariasis. W. pipientis was originally discovered in cells of the mosquito Culex pipiens and is the only formally described member of the genus. Molecular sequence-based studies have revealed a number of phylogenetically diverse strains of W. pipientis. Owing to uncertainty about whether W. pipientis comprises more than one species, researchers in the field now commonly refer to W. pipientis simply as Wolbachia. In this note, we briefly review higher-level phylogenetic and recombination studies of W. pipientis and propose that all the intracellular symbionts known to cluster closely with the type strain of W. pipientis, including those in the currently recognized supergroups (A–H), are officially given this name.

Genotype of Wolbachia pipientis Endosymbiont Affects Octopamine Metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster Females

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 653-655
Author(s):  
N. V. Adonyeva ◽  
E. V. Burdina ◽  
R. A. Bykov ◽  
N. E. Gruntenko ◽  
I. Yu. Rauschenbach
Keyword(s):  
Drosophila Melanogaster ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis

scholarly journals Wolbachia Endosymbiont of the Horn Fly (Haematobia irritans irritans): a Supergroup A Strain with Multiple Horizontally Acquired Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Genes

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukund Madhav ◽  
Rhys Parry ◽  
Jess A. T. Morgan ◽  
Peter James ◽  
Sassan Asgari
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Incompatibility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Whole Genome ◽  
Evolutionary Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis ◽  
Haematobia Irritans ◽  
Horn Fly ◽  
Horn Flies ◽  
Horizontal Acquisition

ABSTRACT The horn fly, Haematobia irritans irritans, is a hematophagous parasite of livestock distributed throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Welfare losses on livestock due to horn fly infestation are estimated to cost between $1 billion and $2.5 billion (U.S. dollars) annually in North America and Brazil. The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis is a maternally inherited manipulator of reproductive biology in arthropods and naturally infects laboratory colonies of horn flies from Kerrville, TX, and Alberta, Canada, but it has also been identified in wild-caught samples from Canada, the United States, Mexico, and Hungary. Reassembly of PacBio long-read and Illumina genomic DNA libraries from the Kerrville H. i. irritans genome project allowed for a complete and circularized 1.3-Mb Wolbachia genome (wIrr). Annotation of wIrr yielded 1,249 coding genes, 34 tRNAs, 3 rRNAs, and 5 prophage regions. Comparative genomics and whole-genome Bayesian evolutionary analysis of wIrr compared to published Wolbachia genomes suggested that wIrr is most closely related to and diverged from Wolbachia supergroup A strains known to infect Drosophila spp. Whole-genome synteny analyses between wIrr and closely related genomes indicated that wIrr has undergone significant genome rearrangements while maintaining high nucleotide identity. Comparative analysis of the cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) genes of wIrr suggested two phylogenetically distinct CI loci and acquisition of another cifB homolog from phylogenetically distant supergroup A Wolbachia strains, suggesting horizontal acquisition of these loci. The wIrr genome provides a resource for future examination of the impact Wolbachia may have in both biocontrol and potential insecticide resistance of horn flies. IMPORTANCE Horn flies, Haematobia irritans irritans, are obligate hematophagous parasites of cattle having significant effects on production and animal welfare. Control of horn flies mainly relies on the use of insecticides, but issues with resistance have increased interest in development of alternative means of control. Wolbachia pipientis is an endosymbiont bacterium known to have a range of effects on host reproduction, such as induction of cytoplasmic incompatibility, feminization, male killing, and also impacts vector transmission. These characteristics of Wolbachia have been exploited in biological control approaches for a range of insect pests. Here we report the assembly and annotation of the circular genome of the Wolbachia strain of the Kerrville, TX, horn fly (wIrr). Annotation of wIrr suggests its unique features, including the horizontal acquisition of additional transcriptionally active cytoplasmic incompatibility loci. This study provides the foundation for future studies of Wolbachia-induced biological effects for control of horn flies.

scholarly journals The Jekyll and Hyde Symbiont: Could Wolbachia Be a Nutritional Mutualist?

2019 ◽  
Vol 202 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene L. G. Newton ◽  
Danny W. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Gene Content ◽  
Scale Analysis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wolbachia Pipientis ◽  
Beneficial Role ◽  
Intracellular Symbiont ◽  
Large Scale Analysis ◽  
Conserved Gene

ABSTRACT The most common intracellular symbiont on the planet—Wolbachia pipientis—is infamous largely for the reproductive manipulations induced in its host. However, more recent evidence suggests that this bacterium may also serve as a nutritional mutualist in certain host backgrounds and for certain metabolites. We performed a large-scale analysis of conserved gene content across all sequenced Wolbachia genomes to infer potential nutrients made by these symbionts. We review and critically evaluate the prior research supporting a beneficial role for Wolbachia and suggest future experiments to test hypotheses of metabolic provisioning.

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