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| Title |
Wolbachia is not all about sex: male-feminizing Wolbachia alters the leafhopper Zyginidia pullula transcriptome in a mainly sex-independent manner
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, September 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00430 |
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| Authors |
Hosseinali Asgharian, Peter L. Chang, Peter J. Mazzoglio, Ilaria Negri |
| Abstract |
Wolbachia causes the feminization of chromosomally male embryos in several species of crustaceans and insects, including the leafhopper Zyginidia pullula. In contrast to the relatively well-established ecological aspects of male feminization (e.g., sex ratio distortion and its consequences), the underlying molecular mechanisms remain understudied and unclear. We embarked on an exploratory study to investigate the extent and nature of Wolbachia's effect on gene expression pattern in Z. pullula. We sequenced whole transcriptomes from Wolbachia-infected and uninfected adults. 18147 loci were assembled de novo, including homologs of several Drosophila sex determination genes. A number of transcripts were flagged as candidate Wolbachia sequences. Despite the resemblance of Wolbachia-infected chromosomal males to uninfected and infected chromosomal females in terms of sexual morphology and behavior, principal component analysis revealed that gene expression patterns did not follow these sexual phenotype categories. The principal components generated by differentially expressed genes specified a strong sex-independent Wolbachia effect, followed by a weaker Wolbachia-sexual karyotype interaction effect. Approaches to further examine the molecular mechanism of Wolbachia-host interactions have been suggested based on the presented findings. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Ethiopia | 1 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 3 | 60% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 4 | 80% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 20% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 27% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 13% |
| Researcher | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 6 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 13% |
| Unknown | 16 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 38 | 51% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 13 | 17% |
| Environmental Science | 2 | 3% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 1% |
| Arts and Humanities | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 18 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 April 2022.
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