ReviewInsects2012
Insect Sex Determination Manipulated by Their Endosymbionts: Incidences, Mechanisms and Implications.
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- Evidence for feminized genetic males in a flea beetle using newly identified X-linked markers.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Safety Assessment of the Potential Probiotic Bacterium Limosilactobacillus fermentum J23 Using the Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens Loew, Diptera: Tephritidae) as a Novel In Vivo Model.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2024Article
- Wolbachia: Advancing into a Second Century.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Two male-killingRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Two sympatric lineages of Australian Cnestus solidus share Ambrosiella symbionts but not Wolbachia.Heredity · 2024Article
- Male-killing virus in a noctuid mothProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The genome and sex-dependent responses to temperature in the common yellow butterfly, Eurema hecabe.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Detection and Characterisation of EndosymbiontTropical life sciences research · 2023Article
- Diverse Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Microbe-Inducing Male Killing in the Moth Homona magnanima.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- A male-killing gene encoded by a symbiotic virus of Drosophila.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
The sex-determining systems of arthropods are surprisingly diverse. Some species have male or female heterogametic sex chromosomes while other species do not have sex chromosomes. Most species are diploids but some species, including wasps, ants, thrips and mites, are haplodiploids (n in males; 2n in females). Many of the sexual aberrations, such as sexual mosaics, sex-specific lethality and conversion of sexuality, can be explained by developmental defects including double fertilization of a binucleate egg, loss of a sex chromosome or perturbation of sex-determining gene expression, which occur accidentally or are induced by certain environmental conditions. However, recent studies have revealed that such sexual aberrations can be caused by various groups of vertically-transmitted endosymbiotic microbes such as bacteria of the genera Wolbachia, Rickettsia, Arsenophonus, Spiroplasma and Cardinium, as well as microsporidian protists. In this review, we first summarize the accumulated data on endosymbiont-induced sexual aberrations, and then discuss how such endosymbionts affect the developmental system of their hosts and what kinds of ecological and evolutionary effects these endosymbionts have on their host populations.
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