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Tsetse/Symbiont Interactions
- The obligate mutualist Wigglesworthia glossinidia influences reproduction, digestion and immunity processes of its host, the tsetse fly
- An insect symbiosis is influenced by bacterium-specific polymorphisms in outer-membrane protein A.
- Interspecific transfer of bacterial endosymbionts between tsetse fly species: infection establishment and effect on host fitness.
- Dynamics of multiple symbiont density regulation during host development: tsetse fly and its microbial flora.
- A novel application of gene arrays: Escherichia coli array provides insight into the biology of the obligate endosymbiont of tsetse flies.
- Tsetse--A haven for microorganisms.
Phylogeny
- Phylogeny and potential transmission routes of midgut-associated endosymbionts of tsetse (Diptera:Glossinidae).
- Wigglesworthia gen. nov. and Wigglesworthia glossinidia sp. nov., taxa consisting of the mycetocyte-associated, primary endosymbionts of tsetse flies.
- Mycetome endosymbionts of tsetse flies constitute a distinct lineage related to Enterobacteriaceae.
- Molecular analysis of the endosymbionts of tsetse flies: 16S rDNA locus and over-expression of a chaperonin.
- Phylogenetically distant symbiotic microorganisms reside in Glossina midgut and ovary tissues.
- Genetic transformation and phylogeny of bacterial symbionts from tsetse.
- Concordant evolution of a symbiont with its host insect species: molecular phylogeny of genus Glossina and its bacteriome-associated endosymbiont, Wigglesworthia glossinidia.
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