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Titer regulation in arthropod-Wolbachia symbioses
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Symbiosis between intracellular bacteria (endosymbionts) and animals are widespread. The alphaproteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis is known to maintain a variety of symbiotic associations, ranging from mutualism to parasitism, with a wide range of invertebrates. Wolbachia infection might deeply affect host fitness (e.g. reproductive manipulation, antiviral protection), which is thought to explain its high prevalence in nature. Bacterial loads significantly influence both the infection dynamics and the extent of bacteria-induced host phenotypes. Hence, fine regulation of bacterial titers is considered as a milestone in host-endosymbiont interplay. Here we review both environmental and biological factors modulating Wolbachia titers in arthropods.
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Wolbachia arthropods symbiosis titer modulation co-adaptation evolution
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Sergio López-Madrigal, Elves H Duarte, Titer regulation in arthropod-Wolbachia symbioses, FEMS Microbiology Letters, Volume 366, Issue 23, December 2019, fnz232.