ReviewTrends in microbiology2010
Phage WO of Wolbachia: lambda of the endosymbiont world.
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70 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- Extensive mobilome dynamics in a widespread endosymbiont: long read metagenomics reveal dimeric plasmids and highly fragmented prophages in Wolbachia from Culex pipiens.Research square · 2026Article
- Phage-microbe interactions may contribute to the population structure and dynamics of hydrothermal vent symbionts.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Editorial: New Frontiers inFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Detection and genetic diversity of Wolbachia and its associated prophage WO in mosquito populations from Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Phage WO diversity and evolutionary forces associated withFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Three feminizingFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Early genome erosion and internal phage-symbiont-host interaction in the endosymbionts of a cold-seep tubeworm.iScience · 2023Article
- Combined actions of bacteriophage-encoded genes iniScience · 2023Article
- Virus-like Particles fromInsects · 2023Article
- pWCP is a widely distributed and highly conserved Wolbachia plasmid in Culex pipiens and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes worldwide.ISME communications · 2023Article
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- Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
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- Environmental Temperature, but Not Male Age, Affects Wolbachia and Prophage WO Thereby Modulating Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in the Parasitoid Wasp, Habrobracon Hebetor.Microbial ecology · 2022Article
- Positive Selection and Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Genome of a Male-Killing Wolbachia.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- High Levels of Multiple Phage WO Infections and Its Evolutionary Dynamics Associated WithFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Male-killing mechanisms vary betweenFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Exploring bycatch diversity of organisms in whole genome sequencing of Erebidae moths (Lepidoptera).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A dual endosymbiosis supports nutritional adaptation to hematophagy in the invasive tickeLife · 2021Article
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Abstract
The discovery of an extraordinarily high level of mobile elements in the genome of Wolbachia, a widespread arthropod and nematode endosymbiont, suggests that this bacterium could be an excellent model for assessing the evolution and function of mobile DNA in specialized bacteria. In this paper, we discuss how studies on the temperate bacteriophage WO of Wolbachia have revealed unexpected levels of genomic flux and are challenging previously held views about the clonality of obligate intracellular bacteria. We also discuss the roles this phage might play in the Wolbachia-arthropod symbiosis and infer how this research can be translated to combating human diseases vectored by arthropods. We expect that this temperate phage will be a preeminent model system to understand phage genetics, evolution and ecology in obligate intracellular bacteria. In this sense, phage WO might be likened to phage lambda of the endosymbiont world.
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