Journal
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 366, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fnz232
Keywords
Wolbachia; arthropods; symbiosis; titer modulation; co-adaptation; evolution
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- Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
- European Research Council Executive Agency [773260WOLBACKIAN]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia under the Graduate Program Science for the Development (PGCD) [SFRH/BD/113757/2015]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/113757/2015] Funding Source: FCT
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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.
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