Wolbachia pipientis

1 paper3 findings

1 lab in 1 country

Funders: National Institute of General Medical Sciences and 2 more

Model organisms1

Outcomes

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Microbial diversity

downin flies1

1 study

Wolbachia pipientis decreases microbial diversity in flies.
“Sampling temporal patterns in the microbiome revealed that Wolbachia constrained microbial diversity.”
Model organismsField mesocosms undergoing seasonal environmental change
Wolbachia impacts microbiome diversity and fitness-associated traits for Drosophila melanogaster in a seasonally fluctuating environment
Ecology and evolution22 Jul 2024

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Associations

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Lifespan

mixedin flies1

1 study

Wolbachia pipientis is associated with lifespan in flies.
“Wolbachia and a dominant member of the microbiome, Commensalibacter, were associated with differences in two higher-order fitness traits, starvation resistance and lifespan.”
Model organismsField mesocosms undergoing seasonal environmental change
Wolbachia impacts microbiome diversity and fitness-associated traits for Drosophila melanogaster in a seasonally fluctuating environment
Ecology and evolution22 Jul 2024

Starvation resistance

mixedin flies1

1 study

Wolbachia pipientis is associated with starvation resistance in flies.
“Wolbachia and a dominant member of the microbiome, Commensalibacter, were associated with differences in two higher-order fitness traits, starvation resistance and lifespan.”
Model organismsField mesocosms undergoing seasonal environmental change
Wolbachia impacts microbiome diversity and fitness-associated traits for Drosophila melanogaster in a seasonally fluctuating environment
Ecology and evolution22 Jul 2024

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Ecology and Evolution23 Jul

Wolbachia impacts microbiome diversity and fitness-associated traits for Drosophila melanogaster in a seasonally fluctuating environment

Experiments in fliesMicrobiome composition