ArticleJournal of evolutionary biology2022
Complex effects of environment and Wolbachia infections on the life history of Drosophila melanogaster hosts.
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- Telomere-to-telomere genome assembly uncovers Wolbachia-driven recurrent male bottleneck effect and selection in a sawfly.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Stochastic Fluctuations of the Facultative EndosymbiontEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Wolbachia-mediated reduction in the glutamate receptor mGluR promotes female promiscuity and bacterial spread.Cell reports · 2025Article
- Wolbachia infection facilitates adaptive increase in male egg size in response to environmental changes.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?Environmental microbiology reports · 2024Article
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- Comparative analysis of Wolbachia maternal transmission and localization in host ovaries.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Comparative analysis ofbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Clinal variation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster: An old debate about natural selection and neutral processes.Genetics and molecular biology · 2024Article
- The Effect of Genotype Combinations ofInsects · 2023Article
- Historic Museum Samples Provide Evidence for a Recent Replacement of Wolbachia Types in European Drosophila melanogaster.Molecular biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Wolbachia endosymbionts manipulate the self-renewal and differentiation of germline stem cells to reinforce fertility of their fruit fly host.PLoS biology · 2023Article
- Wolbachia has subtle effects on thermal preference in highly inbred Drosophila melanogaster which vary with life stage and environmental conditions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- wMel Wolbachia alters female post-mating behaviors and physiology in the dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti.Communications biology · 2023Article
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- Interaction of High Temperature Stress andInsects · 2023Article
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Abstract
Wolbachia bacteria are common endosymbionts of many arthropods found in gonads and various somatic tissues. They manipulate host reproduction to enhance their transmission and confer complex effects on fitness-related traits. Some of these effects can serve to increase the survival and transmission efficiency of Wolbachia in the host population. The Wolbachia-Drosophila melanogaster system represents a powerful model to study the evolutionary dynamics of host-microbe interactions and infections. Over the past decades, there has been a replacement of the ancestral wMelCS Wolbachia variant by the more recent wMel variant in worldwide D. melanogaster populations, but the reasons remain unknown. To investigate how environmental change and genetic variation of the symbiont affect host developmental and adult life-history traits, we compared effects of both Wolbachia variants and uninfected controls in wild-caught D. melanogaster strains at three developmental temperatures. While Wolbachia did not influence any developmental life-history traits, we found that both lifespan and fecundity of host females were increased without apparent fitness trade-offs. Interestingly, wMelCS-infected flies were more fecund than uninfected and wMel-infected flies. By contrast, males infected with wMel died sooner, indicating sex-specific effects of infection that are specific to the Wolbachia variant. Our study uncovered complex temperature-specific effects of Wolbachia infections, which suggests that symbiont-host interactions in nature are strongly dependent on the genotypes of both partners and the thermal environment.
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