ReviewEmerging infectious diseases
Male-killing bacteria in insects: mechanisms, incidence, and implications.
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- Integrated microbiome and metabolomic analysis of Spodoptera litura under Metarhizium flavoviride qc1401 stress.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2025Article
- Sex-ratio distortion in a weed biological control agent, Ceratapion basicorne (Coleoptera: Brentidae), associated with a species of Rickettsia.Environmental entomology · 2025Article
- Infection pattern of male-killing viruses alters phenotypes in the tea tortrix moth Homona magnanima.Heredity · 2025Article
- Phylogeographic analyses reveal recent dispersal and multiple Wolbachia infections of the bright-eyed ringlet Erebia oeme within the European mountain systems.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Antibiotic agrochemical treatment reduces endosymbiont infections and alters population dynamics in leafminers, thrips, and parasitoid wasps.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Microbial alternatives for sustainable insecticide use, a Canadian perspective.Sustainable microbiology · 2025Article
- Intraspecific diversity of Myrmecophilus acervorum (Orthoptera: Myrmecophilidae) indicating an ongoing cryptic speciation.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sex ratio distorting microbes exacerbate arthropod extinction risk in variable environments.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Changes in the bacterial communities ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Two male-killingRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Maintenance and Evaluation of Wolbachia Male-Killers of Dipterans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Combined actions of bacteriophage-encoded genes iniScience · 2023Article
- Diverse Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Microbe-Inducing Male Killing in the Moth Homona magnanima.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Bacteria that are vertically transmitted through female hosts and kill male hosts that inherit them were first recorded in insects during the 1950s. Recent studies have shown these "male-killers" to be diverse and have led to a reappraisal of the biology of many groups of bacteria. Rickettsia, for instance, have been regarded as human pathogens transmitted by arthropods. The finding of a male-killing Rickettsia obligately associated with an insect suggests that the genus' members may be primarily associated with arthropods and are only sometimes pathogens of vertebrates. We examined both how killing of male hosts affects the dynamics of inherited bacteria and how male-killing bacteria affect their host populations. Finally, we assessed the potential use of these microorganisms in the control of insect populations.
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