Maternally transmitted Wolbachia often cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI), a sperm modification that kills host embryos lacking the endosymbiont. CI produces defects in paternal chromosome replica...

Maternally transmitted Wolbachia occupy roughly half of terrestrial arthropod species, but the factors maintaining their variable population frequencies are poorly understood. In Drosophila melanogast...

Maternally transmitted Wolbachia bacteria are common in insects, with many strains altering host reproduction through cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). CI kills embryos fertilized by Wolbachia -bearin...

Abstract. Maternally inherited Wolbachia alphaproteobacteria are the most common arthropod endosymbionts. Often, Wolbachia spread to high frequencies throu