| multiple infections with cardinium and two strains of wolbachia in the spider mite tetranychus phaselus ehara: revealing new forces driving the spread of wolbachia. | cytoplasmic incompatibility (ci) has been proposed as a major mechanism by which certain strains of wolbachia to invade and persist in host populations. however, mechanisms that underlie the invasion and persistence of non-ci strains are less well understood. here, we established a spider mite tetranychus phaselus population multiply infected by cardinium as well as two distinct lineages of wolbachia, designated wcon and wori, to study the forces driving the spread of the non-ci strain of wolbac ... | 2013 | 23355904 |
| diversity of wolbachia in natural populations of spider mites (genus tetranychus): evidence for complex infection history and disequilibrium distribution. | wolbachia are endosymbiotic bacteria that commonly infect arthropods and cause reproductive disorders in host. within several tetranychus species, wolbachia have been detected and shown to affect their reproduction. however, little is known about their transmission and distribution patterns in natural populations of tetranychus species. here, we used multilocus sequence typing to confirm wolbachia infection status and examined the relationship between wolbachia infection status and host phylogen ... | 2013 | 23429887 |