#wolbachia — Public Fediverse posts
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Google plant, bis zu 32 Mio. mit Wolbachia infizierte männliche Mücken freizusetzen, um Krankheitsüberträger zu reduzieren. Gegner warnen vor unkalkulierbaren Umweltfolgen, die EPA prüft den Antrag. Was steckt dahinter? 🦟⚖️🔬 #Mücken #Wolbachia #Umwelt https://www.nau.ch/news/amerika/google-will-millionen-mucken-freisetzen-67137044
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: #Google’s Debug program, with #Monash University and #mosquito control districts, applied for an #EPA permit to release 64 million male #Culex mosquitoes in #California and #Florida. 🦟
The males carry #Wolbachia #bacteria, making their offspring non-viable. Only females bite, so no biting mosquitoes are added. 🦠
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Debugging: #Google requests permission to release 32m #mosquitoes in #California and #Florida
Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs
Male mosquitoes don’t bite or carry disease. One of the main approaches Google is testing involves rearing male mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria, called #wolbachia, which stops them from having offspring with wild female mosquitoes.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/01/google-permission-release-mosquitoes-california-florida -
#Verily, la filiale scientifique d'Alphabet (maison mère de #Google) a lancé le "Debug Project" : des moustiques mâles infectés par la bactérie #Wolbachia sont lâchés dans la nature pour féconder les femelles sauvages et rendre leurs œufs stériles.
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Lefoulon et al. analyzed 32 Wolbachia genomes to study the evolution of the wmk male killing gene across different arthropod hosts.
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"[Hannah Ritchie] In this article, I’ll focus on how Wolbachia can be used against dengue fever. I'll examine how this innovative new method works, how effective it is in reducing transmission, and how it can be rolled out across the tropics to protect as many people as possible."
https://ourworldindata.org/wolbachia-neglected-tropical-diseases
#OurWorldInData #Diseases #Mosquitoes #Wolbachia #Health #Dengue
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Namias et al. sequenced cytoplasmic incompatibility causal genes (cid) from Wolbachia in Culex pipiens mosquitoes, showing that the extensive diversity of cid genes arises from recombination and horizontal transfers.
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#Brazil, Ministry of #Health inaugurates the #world's largest #Wolbachia #biofactory, https://www.gov.br/saude/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/julho/ministerio-da-saude-inaugura-a-maior-biofabrica-de-wolbachia-do-mundo
The technology involves producing mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, a bacterium that blocks the development of viruses within the Aedes aegypti mosquito , preventing their transmission.
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In our study “Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?” https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.70040 we summarise the diversity of terrestrial #invertebrates and discuss why #Wolbachia - the common #endosymbiont of invertebrates was not found in #Antarctica. Literature and in silico search did not show the presence of Wolbachia in samples collected in Antarctica. Samples of species which are prevalent in Antarctica but collected on other continents can be infected with Wolbachia.
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Recordatorio irregular: hay una técnica de control biológico contra el mosquito que transmite el dengue y otras pestes MUY efectiva, ya ensayada en Indonesia, Colombia y Brasil.
Y si tuviéramos un gobierno mínimamente decente, se podría haber combinado con un juicioso plan de vacunación para atajar esta epidemia del carajo.
Sí, esta asistencia técnica también vamos a tener que importarla, a lo mejor incluso los mismos mosquitos troyanizados, en lugar de desarrollar y producir acá.
#Dengue #Zika #Chikungunya #FiebreAmarilla #AedesAegypti #Wolbachia
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#Wolbachia causes embryonic lethality in #FruitFlies by modifying #chromatin integrity in sperm. @KaurTweets @Symbionticism &co show that this occurs in the wMel-transinfected #Aedesaegypti #mosquitoes used to control vector-borne diseases #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3xgOsBH
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"Here, we assess how temperature affects maternal transmission and underlying patterns of Wolbachia localization across 10 Wolbachia strains diverged up to 50 million years—including strains closely related to wMel—and their natural #Drosophila hosts."
#Wolbachia #Preprint
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.03.583170v1 -
Long-term maintenance of Culex #mosquitoes in the lab allowed @_alnam &co to witness emergence of novel #CytoplasmicIncompatibility patterns, showing that they arose from rapid evolution of #Wolbachia genomes via gene loss & recombination #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3HLaBKC
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Infecting Aedes aegypti #mosquitos with #Wolbachia #bacteria may be a way to reduce the transmission of #Dengue #virus and other #viruses.
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‘Three cities in Colombia saw a dramatic fall [up to 94–97%] in the incidence of #dengue in the years following the introduction of mosquitoes carrying #Wolbachia, a bacterium that prevents the insect from transmitting viruses.’
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03346-2 -
How Engineered Mosquitos Could Save Birds | PBS Terra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsKj9FMSplM
#Mosquitoes #mosquito #birds #Hawaii #PBS #Wolbachia -
The fight against #dengue fever has a new weapon: a #mosquito infected with the #bacteria #Wolbachia, which prevents the spread of the #virus. These mosquitoes have now been deployed in several trials demonstrating their potential in preventing disease transmission.
#Biology #Medical #Virology #sflorg
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.@shelbilrussell &co reveal that wMel #Wolbachia bacterial #symbionts can enhance #FruitFly reproductive development in both mutant & WT flies; this phenotype is essential to long-term use of Wolbachia for host population control #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3QsX7Z5
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A new report shows how bacteria can help defeat dengue fever, the world’s fastest-spreading mosquito-borne disease. The report describes how mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria are released in cities to prevent them from transmitting dengue and other viruses to humans. This innovative strategy could save millions of lives, reduce health costs, and protect the environment.
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Two research technician positions in our lab to work on #Wolbachia antiviral protection and titres regulation. Join our team to start your research career in this #ERC project. Applications until 16 August. More details at https://cdn.gulbenkian.pt/ciencia/wp-content/uploads/sites/47/2023/08/ENG_ERC_LTeixeira.pdf Please boost.
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'Therefore, to understand the influence of Wolbachia on within-host ZIKV evolution, we characterized the genetic diversity of molecularly barcoded ZIKV virus populations replicating in Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes and found that within-host ZIKV evolution was subject to weak purifying selection and, unexpectedly, loose anatomical bottlenecks in the presence and absence of Wolbachia'
#Preprint #Wolbachia #HostPathogen #Virology #InnateImmunity
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Bacteria in the genus Wolbachia are commonly found living within insects, but their presence in cockroaches has not been thoroughly explored. A new study finds Wolbachia in four of 16 cockroach species across three families, and researchers hope further study may open doors to new management methods for pest cockroach species. #entomology #insects #cockroaches #wolbachia https://entomologytoday.org/2023/06/15/wolbachia-cockroaches-new-paradigm-urban-pest-management/
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I guess that's a first record (or at least first good one) of #Wolbachia in a #Strepsipteran !
Even more interesting, this study shows that stylopisation by Dipterophagus daci could induce changes in the microbiome of the host !
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Behind the paper @PLOSBiology (in #PLOSBiology)
In this ‘behind the paper’ post, Ary Hoffmann explains how they found a Wolbachia strain that caused all-female offspring in infected flies and the finding that host genes are able to suppress this phenotype.
https://biologue.plos.org/2023/04/05/a-bacteria-strain-that-kills-males/
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Unexpected #endosymbiont complexity in a fly species, wherein a #Wolbachia bacterium that kills males lives alongside a second strain that causes #CytoplasmicIncompatibility in the same host @MosWhisperer @drosobachia @PEARG_Lab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3TEicQe
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Unexpected #endosymbiont complexity in a fly species, wherein a #Wolbachia bacterium that kills males lives alongside a second strain that causes #CytoplasmicIncompatibility in the same host @MosWhisperer @drosobachia @PEARG_Lab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3TEicQe
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Unexpected #endosymbiont complexity in a fly species, wherein a #Wolbachia bacterium that kills males lives alongside a second strain that causes #CytoplasmicIncompatibility in the same host @MosWhisperer @drosobachia @PEARG_Lab &co #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3TEicQe
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After years of careful planning, Rafael Maciel de Freitas and his team couldn't understand why their groundbreaking #mosquito control programme was failing just a few weeks in.
A chance conversation with a local shopkeeper gave them the answer they'd been seeking. #Wolbachia #DengueFever #AedesAegypti
https://elifesciences.org/articles/87366?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic -
A look at the Wolbachia technology employed in Singapore to suppress the mosquito population. Also highlights some reasons why the suppression method is used, instead of replacing the native mosquito population with a wolbachia infected one.
https://undark.org/2023/02/13/why-singapore-is-breeding-millions-of-bacteria-infected-mosquitoes/