ArticleMicrobial ecology2018
Wolbachia in the Genus Bicyclus: a Forgotten Player.
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- Molecular identification and characterization ofCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2026Article
- Pervasive horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in natural populations of closely related and widespread tropical skipper butterflies.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Zygosity-based sex determination in a butterfly drives hypervariability ofScience advances · 2024Article
- Symbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in coccinellid parasitoids: genetic diversity, horizontal transfer, and recombination.International microbiology : the official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology · 2023Article
- One's trash is someone else's treasure: sequence read archives from Lepidoptera genomes provide material for genome reconstruction of their endosymbionts.BMC microbiology · 2022Article
- Exploring bycatch diversity of organisms in whole genome sequencing of Erebidae moths (Lepidoptera).Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Towards unravelling Wolbachia global exchange: a contribution from the Bicyclus and Mylothris butterflies in the Afrotropics.BMC microbiology · 2020Article
- Uncovering the hidden players in Lepidoptera biology: the heritable microbial endosymbionts.PeerJ · 2018Article
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Abstract
Bicyclus butterflies are key species for studies of wing pattern development, phenotypic plasticity, speciation and the genetics of Lepidoptera. One of the key endosymbionts in butterflies, the alpha-Proteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis, is affecting many of these biological processes; however, Bicyclus butterflies have not been investigated systematically as hosts to Wolbachia. In this study, we screen for Wolbachia infection in several Bicyclus species from natural populations across Africa as well as two laboratory populations. Out of the 24 species tested, 19 were found to be infected, and no double infection was found, but both A- and B-supergroup strains colonise this butterfly group. We also show that many of the Wolbachia strains identified in Bicyclus butterflies belong to the ST19 clonal complex. We discuss the importance of our results in regard to routinely screening for Wolbachia when using Bicyclus butterflies as the study organism of research in eco-evolutionary biology.
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