Jamestown Canyon #virus {#JCV} is transmissible by #Aedes aegypti and is only moderately blocked by #Wolbachia co-infection https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0011616 #arbovirus #bunyavirus #EIDs #mosquitoes #research #science

Two research technician positions in our lab to work on #Wolbachia antiviral protection and titres regulation. Join our team to start your research career in this #ERC project. Applications until 16 August. More details at https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2023/08/ENG_ERC_LTeixeira.pdf Please boost.

Modeling shows emerging #mosquito #control approach might be largely resistant to warming temperatures.

#climate_change #Wolbachia #IPM

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-emerging-mosquito-approach-largely-resistant.html

'Therefore, to understand the influence of Wolbachia on within-host ZIKV evolution, we characterized the genetic diversity of molecularly barcoded ZIKV virus populations replicating in Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and found that within-host ZIKV evolution was subject to weak purifying selection and, unexpectedly, loose anatomical bottlenecks in the presence and absence of Wolbachia'

#Preprint #Wolbachia #HostPathogen #Virology #InnateImmunity

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.06.26.546271v1

Bacteria in the genus Wolbachia are commonly found living within insects, but their presence in cockroaches has not been thoroughly explored. A new study finds Wolbachia in four of 16 cockroach species across three families, and researchers hope further study may open doors to new management methods for pest cockroach species. #entomology #insects #cockroaches #wolbachia https://entomologytoday.org/2023/06/15/wolbachia-cockroaches-new-paradigm-urban-pest-management/

Hiring a postdoc to study host-microbe interactions! See flyer and shropshirelab.com for details, and share with anyone that may be interested!

@jobsecoevo #ScienceJobs #PostdocJob #EcoEvo #CellBiology #Genetics #Symbiosis #Bacteria #Insects #Wolbachia #Drosophila

Verbreiten die Moskitos von Gates Dengue-Fieber? Zahlen aus Sri Lanka sprechen dafür https://sciencefiles.org/2023/06/10/verbreiten-die-moskitos-von-gates-dengue-fieber-zahlen-aus-sri-lanka-sprechen-dafuer/ #Wolbachia-Bakterien #WorldMoskitoProgram #DengueFieber #BillGates #Moskitos #SriLanka

Neues von Bill Gates: Er brütet Stechmücken und setzt Millionen Moskitos weltweit frei – keine Fake News! https://sciencefiles.org/2023/06/06/neues-von-bill-gates-er-bruetet-stechmuecken-und-setzt-millionen-moskitos-weltweit-frei-keine-fake-news/ #GentechnischveränderteOrganismen #Wolbachia-Bakterien #WorldMoskitoProgram #DengueFieber #Gesundheit #Gelbfieber #Zika-Virus #BillGates #Risiken

I guess that's a first record (or at least first good one) of #Wolbachia in a #Strepsipteran !

Even more interesting, this study shows that stylopisation by Dipterophagus daci could induce changes in the microbiome of the host !

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37103495/

#ecology #insects #parasite #microbiome #microbiology

Behind the paper @PLOSBiology (in #PLOSBiology)

In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Ary Hoffmann explains how they found a Wolbachia strain that caused all-female offspring in infected flies and the finding that host genes are able to suppress this phenotype.

https://biologue.plos.org/2023/04/05/a-bacteria-strain-that-kills-males/

#genetics
#wolbachia

Unexpected #endosymbiont complexity in a fly species, wherein a #Wolbachia bacterium that kills males lives alongside a second strain that causes #CytoplasmicIncompatibility in the same host @MosWhisperer @drosobachia @PEARG_Lab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3TEicQe

Unexpected #endosymbiont complexity in a fly species, wherein a #Wolbachia bacterium that kills males lives alongside a second strain that causes #CytoplasmicIncompatibility in the same host @MosWhisperer @drosobachia @PEARG_Lab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3TEicQe

Unexpected #endosymbiont complexity in a fly species, wherein a #Wolbachia bacterium that kills males lives alongside a second strain that causes #CytoplasmicIncompatibility in the same host @MosWhisperer @drosobachia @PEARG_Lab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3TEicQe

After years of careful planning, Rafael Maciel de Freitas and his team couldn't understand why their groundbreaking #mosquito control programme was failing just a few weeks in.

A chance conversation with a local shopkeeper gave them the answer they'd been seeking. #Wolbachia #DengueFever #AedesAegypti
https://elifesciences.org/articles/87366?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

A look at the Wolbachia technology employed in Singapore to suppress the mosquito population. Also highlights some reasons why the suppression method is used, instead of replacing the native mosquito population with a wolbachia infected one.

https://undark.org/2023/02/13/why-singapore-is-breeding-millions-of-bacteria-infected-mosquitoes/

#Mosquitoes #Singapore #Wolbachia

Into 🕷️#spiders, #Wolbachia, #Cardinium, #Rickettsiaceae, and/or #Rhabdochlamydia 🦠 endosymbionts? We've got you covered! Paper now available at #MicrobialGenomicsJournal (@MicrobioSoc)

#genomics of five co-occurring #symbionts of the spider Oedothorax gibbosus

https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.000943

@DOME_Vienna @RBINSmuseum @fhendrickx @stephkoe @tamara_retlah

Not the point of the paper, but this intro bit was news to me:

"Indeed, the host immunity-boosting phenotype may explain the initial spread of Wolbachia in previously uninfected populations. In nematodes, elimination of Wolbachia induces host sterility, and antibiotic treatment is an effective addition to pharmacological treatment of human-infecting, #Wolbachia-positive filarial nematodes"

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001972

Mind blowing project of @NWybouw. Gent is awesome and the colleagues the best! (sorry for anyone offended)
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RT @NWybouw
The HYBRIPEST project is hiring two PhD students! These focus on resolving the mechanisms that underlie host - #Wolbachia interactions and hybrid defects; http://www.nickywybouw.org/images/PhD1-ONLINE.pdf and http://www.nickywybouw.org/images/PhD2-ONLINE.pdf
Happy to answer questions about the positions, work and group…
https://twitter.com/NWybouw/status/1613534975109861376

@DarrenObbard

"Approximately a quarter of eukaryotes are infected with the bacterium Wolbachia." !!!!!

"we show that Wolbachia infection supports fly development and buffers against nutritional stress. Wolbachia infection across several fly genotypes and a range of nutrient conditions resulted in reduced pupal mortality, increased adult emergence, and larger size."

Lindsey et al. 2023 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.20.524972v1

Wow. #Drosophila #Wolbachia

Wolbachia are #endosymbionts that manipulate their hosts' reproductive biology. @EmmelienV @blaxterlab describe genomes of 110 #Wolbachia coincidentally sequenced alongside their insect hosts, finding a rich diversity of host manipulation loci #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3DarU62