Complex effects of environment and Wolbachia infections on the life history of Drosophila melanogaster hosts.

ABSTRACT: Wolbachia bacteria are common endosymbionts of many arthropods found in gonads and various somatic tissues. They manipulate host reproduction to enhance their transmission and confer complex effects on fitness-related traits. Some of these effects can serve to increase the survival and transmission efficiency of Wolbachia in the host population. The Wolbachia-Drosophila melanogaster system represents a powerful model to study the evolutionary dynamics of host-microbe interactions and infections. Over the past decades, there has been a replacement of the ancestral wMelCS Wolbachia variant by the more recent wMel variant in worldwide D. melanogaster populations, but the reasons remain unknown. To investigate how environmental change and genetic variation of the symbiont affect host developme

SUBMITTER: Strunov A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9321091 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature