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October 15, 2014Journal of Medical Entomology

Interspecific Transfer of a Wolbachia Infection Into Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Yields a Novel Phenotype Capable of Rescuing a Superinfection

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EAElizabeth S. AndrewsCalifornia Department of Public HealthYFYuqing FuUniversity of California SystemMCMaurizio CalvittiNational Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

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Laboratory study reveals atypical cytoplasmic incompatibility patterns in Aedes albopictus after interspecific Wolbachia transfer, highlighting new opportunities for mosquito population control.

Key Points

  • To evaluate whether transferring a Wolbachia strain from Aedes riversi into Aedes albopictus produces functional cytoplasmic incompatibility for mosquito control.
  • Cleared wild-type Wolbachia from Ae. albopictus using tetracycline treatment.
  • Introduced a Wolbachia strain from Ae. riversi into uninfected Ae. albopictus embryos via microinjection to generate the UC strain.
  • Performed crossing experiments between the UC strain, wild-type, uninfected, and ARwP Ae. albopictus strains to measure egg hatch rates and incompatibility patterns.
  • Crosses between UC males and uninfected females yielded zero egg hatch, showing complete unidirectional cytoplasmic incompatibility.
  • Crosses between UC and wild-type strains exhibited unidirectional incompatibility, indicating wild-type Wolbachia cannot rescue the UC strain phenotype.
  • Crosses between UC and the artificially infected ARwP strain demonstrated complete bidirectional cytoplasmic incompatibility.

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Andrews et al. (2014) studied this question.

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