Evolution: Environmental conditions determine how Wolbachia interacts with its host

Adam M M Stuckert; Daniel R Matute

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.010

Evolution: Environmental conditions determine how Wolbachia interacts with its host

Curr Biol. 2022 Feb 28;32(4):R178-R180. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.010.

Authors

Adam M M Stuckert¹, Daniel R Matute²

Affiliations

¹ Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA.
² Biology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA. Electronic address: dmatute@email.unc.edu.

PMID: 35231415
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.010

Abstract

Wolbachia is a genus of globally distributed endosymbiotic bacteria found in thousands of species of arthropods and nematodes. One strain, wMel, has spread globally but varies dramatically in frequency. In a new paper, Hague et al. discovered that the interaction of host genotype, symbiont genotype, and environment explains natural wMel variation.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Arthropods*
Drosophila melanogaster / microbiology
Wolbachia* / genetics