Ghosts of symbionts past: The hidden history of the dynamic association between filarial nematodes and their Wolbachia endosymbionts
Emmelien Vancaester, Guy R Oldrieve, Alex Reid, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Dominik R. Laetsch, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Vincent Ngwang Tanya, Sven Poppert, Jürgen Krücken, Adrian J. Wolstenholme, Mark Blaxter
The paper investigates the evolutionary history of Wolbachia symbiosis in filarial nematodes by analyzing nuclear Wolbachia transfers and genome sequences, revealing complex patterns of cospeciation, loss, and replacement.
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Oct 1, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics