Culex pipiens crossing type diversity is governed by an amplified and polymorphic operon of Wolbachia

Manon Bonneau; Celestine Atyame; Marwa Beji; Fabienne Justy; Martin Cohen-Gonsaud; Mathieu Sicard; Mylène Weill

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02749-w

Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Culex pipiens crossing type diversity is governed by an amplified and polymorphic operon of Wolbachia

Manon Bonneau,
Celestine Atyame,
Marwa Beji,
Fabienne Justy,
Martin Cohen-Gonsaud,
Mathieu Sicard,
Mylène Weill

Affiliations

Manon Bonneau: Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), UMR CNRS-IRD-EPHE-Université de Montpellier
Celestine Atyame: Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), UMR CNRS-IRD-EPHE-Université de Montpellier
Marwa Beji: Institut Pasteur Tunis, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Veterinary Microbiology, University of Tunis El Manar
Fabienne Justy: Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), UMR CNRS-IRD-EPHE-Université de Montpellier
Martin Cohen-Gonsaud: Centre de Biochimie Structurale (CBS), UMR CNRS-INSERM-Université de Montpellier
Mathieu Sicard: Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), UMR CNRS-IRD-EPHE-Université de Montpellier
Mylène Weill: Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), UMR CNRS-IRD-EPHE-Université de Montpellier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02749-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Wolbachia causes cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) between mosquitoes infected with different strains, but the genetic basis of observed CI diversity is unknown. Here, Bonneau et al. sequence Wolbachia from over 100 Culex pipiens lines and show that crossing types match variations of the toxin-antitoxin cidA-cidB genes.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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