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Volume 12 Supplement 1

Arthropod symbioses: from fundamental studies to pest and disease management

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Edited by Gregory Hurst and Kostas Bourtzis

Publication of this supplement has been sponsored by the COST network FA0701: Arthropod symbioses: from fundamental studies to pest and disease management

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Feminizing Wolbachia: a transcriptomics approach with insights on the immune response genes in Armadillidium vulgare

Frédéric Chevalier, Juline Herbinière-Gaboreau, Delphine Charif, Guillaume Mitta, Frédéric Gavory, Patrick Wincker, Pierre Grève, Christine Braquart-Varnier, Didier Bouchon BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S1 (18 January 2012)

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Delayed larval development in Anopheles mosquitoes deprived of Asaia bacterial symbionts

Bessem Chouaia, Paolo Rossi, Sara Epis, Michela Mosca, Irene Ricci, Claudia Damiani, Ulisse Ulissi, Elena Crotti, Daniele Daffonchio, Claudio Bandi, Guido Favia BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S2 (18 January 2012)

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Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in laboratory and natural populations of different species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina)

Vangelis Doudoumis, George Tsiamis, Florence Wamwiri, Corey Brelsfoard, Uzma Alam, Emre Aksoy, Stelios Dalaperas, Adly Abd-Alla, Johnson Ouma, Peter Takac, Serap Aksoy, Kostas Bourtzis BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S3 (18 January 2012)

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Horizontal transmission of the symbiotic bacterium Asaia sp. in the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

Elena Gonella, Elena Crotti, Aurora Rizzi, Mauro Mandrioli, Guido Favia, Daniele Daffonchio, Alberto Alma BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S4 (18 January 2012)

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Metabolic stasis in an ancient symbiosis: genome-scale metabolic networks from two Blattabacterium cuenoti strains, primary endosymbionts of cockroaches

Carmen González-Domenech, Eugeni Belda, Rafael Patiño-Navarrete, Andrés Moya, Juli Peretó, Amparo Latorre BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S5 (18 January 2012)

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Assessment of bacterial endosymbiont diversity in Otiorhynchus spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae using a multitag 454 pyrosequencing approach

Jacqueline Hirsch, Stephan Strohmeier, Martin Pfannkuchen, Annette Reineke BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S6 (18 January 2012)

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Influence of Wolbachia on host gene expression in an obligatory symbiosis

Natacha Kremer, Delphine Charif, Hélène Henri, Frédérick Gavory, Patrick Wincker, Patrick Mavingui, Fabrice Vavre BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S7 (18 January 2012)

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Male-killing Wolbachia do not protect Drosophila bifasciata against viral infection

Ben Longdon, Daniel K Fabian, Gregory DD Hurst, Francis M Jiggins BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S8 (18 January 2012)

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Microbial community of predatory bugs of the genus Macrolophus (Hemiptera: Miridae)

Thijs Machtelinckx, Thomas Van Leeuwen, Tom Van De Wiele, Nico Boon, Winnok H De Vos, Juan-Antonio Sanchez, Mauro Nannini, Godelieve Gheysen, Patrick De Clercq BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S9 (18 January 2012)

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Evidence of diversity and recombination in Arsenophonus symbionts of the Bemisia tabaci species complex

Laurence Mouton, Magali Thierry, Hélène Henri, Rémy Baudin, Olivier Gnankine, Bernard Reynaud, Einat Zchori-Fein, Nathalie Becker, Frédéric Fleury, Hélène Delatte BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S10 (18 January 2012)

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Wolbachia surface protein induces innate immune responses in mosquito cells

Sofia B Pinto, Mara Mariconti, Chiara Bazzocchi, Claudio Bandi, Steven P Sinkins BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S11 (18 January 2012)

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Tandem repeat markers as novel diagnostic tools for high resolution fingerprinting of Wolbachia

Markus Riegler, Iñaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Megan Woolfit, Wolfgang J Miller, Scott L O’Neill BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S12 (18 January 2012)

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Diversity and recombination in Wolbachia and Cardinium from Bryobia spider mites

Vera I D Ros, Vicki M Fleming, Edward J Feil, Johannes A J Breeuwer BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S13 (18 January 2012)

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Host gene response to endosymbiont and pathogen in the cereal weevil Sitophilus oryzae

Aurélien Vigneron, Delphine Charif, Carole Vincent-Monégat, Agnès Vallier, Frédérick Gavory, Patrick Wincker, Abdelaziz Heddi BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S14 (18 January 2012)

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The virulent Wolbachia strain wMelPop increases the frequency of apoptosis in the female germline cells of Drosophila melanogaster

Mariya V Zhukova, Elena Kiseleva BMC Microbiology 2012, 12(Suppl 1):S15 (18 January 2012)

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