Recombination, Truncation and Horizontal Transfer Shape the Diversity of Wolbachia-induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Patterns.

ABSTRACT: Wolbachia are endosymbiotic bacteria inducing various reproductive manipulations of which cytoplasmic incompatibility is the most common. Cytoplasmic incompatibility leads to reduced embryo viability in crosses between males carrying Wolbachia and uninfected females or those carrying an incompatible symbiont strain. In the mosquito Culex pipiens, the Wolbachia wPip causes highly complex crossing patterns. This complexity is linked to the amplification and diversification of the cytoplasmic incompatibility causal genes, cidA and cidB, with polymorphism located in the CidA-CidB interaction regions. We previously showed that some compatibility patterns correlated with the presence or absence of specific cid variants. It is still unknown, however, whether cid gene polymorphism alone is suffici

SUBMITTER: Namias A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12461563 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature