MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA--Scientists studying the widespread symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia have long been interested in its ability to proliferate. One way it does this is by hijacking sperm of its insect ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Wolbachia are maternally inherited, intracellular bacteria at the forefront of vector control efforts to curb arbovirus transmission. In ...

Wolbachia is the most successful parasite the world has ever known. You've never heard of it because it only infects bugs: millions upon millions of species of insects, spiders, centipedes and other ...

Researchers have uncovered the mechanism underlying male sterility in insects caused by viral proteins present in Wolbachia bacteria. In a recent study, researchers from Penn State University (PA, USA ...

A widespread bacteria called Wolbachia pipientis and a virus that it carries can cause sterility in male insects by hijacking their sperm, preventing them from fertilizing eggs of females that do not ...