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2. [The endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia enhances the nonspecific resistance to insect pathogens and alters behavior of Drosophila melanogaster].

Author

Panteleev DIu, Goriacheva II, Andrianov BV, Reznik NL, Lazebnyĭ OE, and Kulikov AM

Subjects
Animals, Beauveria physiology, Drosophila melanogaster microbiology, Feeding Behavior, Female, Male, Oviposition, Sexual Behavior, Animal, Symbiosis, Wolbachia drug effects, Anti-Bacterial Agents pharmacology, Drosophila melanogaster physiology, Tetracycline pharmacology, Wolbachia physiology
Abstract

To determine biologically important effects of the cytoplasmic endosymbiont Wolbachia, two substrains of the same Drosophila melanogaster strain have been studied, one of them infected with Wolbachia and the other treated with tetracycline to eliminate the bacterium. Female D. melanogaster infected with Wolbachia are more resistant to the fungus Bauveria bassiana (an insect pathogen) than uninfected females; infected females also exhibited changes in oviposition substrate preference. Males infected with the bacterium are more competitive than uninfected males. The possible role of Wolbachia in the formation of alternative ecological strategies of D. melanogaster is discussed.

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2007

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