Tsetse – A Haven for Microorganisms

Bacterial evolution

1987 • 2,303 citations

Endosymbiosis of Animals with Plant Microorganisms

1968 • 1,220 citations

Endosymbiosis of animals with plant microorganisms

1966 • 1,093 citations

Distribution ofWolbachiaamong neotropical arthropods

1995 • 623 citations

Wolbachia , normally a symbiont of Drosophila , can be virulent, causing degeneration and early death

1997 • 556 citations

MYCETOCYTE SYMBIOSIS IN INSECTS

1989 • 507 citations

Wolbachia infections are distributed throughout insect somatic and germ line tissues

1999 • 413 citations

Cytoplasmic incompatibility in insects

1997 • 405 citations

Influential Passengers

1997 • 350 citations

Interspecific and Intraspecific Horizontal Transfer of Wolbachia in Drosophila

1993 • 325 citations

Prevention of insect-borne disease: An approach using transgenic symbiotic bacteria

1997 • 322 citations

Concordant Evolution of a Symbiont with Its Host Insect Species: Molecular Phylogeny of Genus Glossina and Its Bacteriome-Associated Endosymbiont, Wigglesworthia glossinidia

1999 • 272 citations

Dynamics of cytoplasmic incompatibility and mtDNA variation in natural Drosophila simulans populations.

1992 • 267 citations

Wolbachia Transfer from Drosophila melanogaster into D. simulans: Host Effect and Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Relationships

1998 • 260 citations

Sodalis gen. nov. and Sodalis glossinidius sp. nov., a microaerophilic secondary endosymbiont of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans morsitans

1999 • 247 citations

Buchnera gen. nov. and Buchnera aphidicola sp. nov., a Taxon Consisting of the Mycetocyte-Associated, Primary Endosymbionts of Aphids

1991 • 241 citations

Digestion in the Tsetse-Fly: A Study of Structure and Function

1929 • 202 citations

Tissue tropism, transmission and expression of foreign genes in vivo in midgut symbionts of tsetse flies

1999 • 197 citations

Occurrence and Transmission of Facultative Endosymbionts in Aphids

1997 • 194 citations

Wigglesworthia gen. nov. and Wigglesworthia glossinidia sp. nov., Taxa Consisting of the Mycetocyte-Associated, Primary Endosymbionts of Tsetse Flies

1995 • 164 citations

Flavobacteria as intracellular symbionts in cockroaches

1994 • 158 citations

Intracellular endosymbiotic bacteria of Camponotus species (carpenter ants): systematics, evolution and ultrastructural characterization

1996 • 156 citations

Tissue distribution and prevalence ofWolbachiainfections in tsetse flies,Glossinaspp.

2000 • 155 citations

Modification of arthropod vector competence via symbiotic bacteria

1993 • 147 citations

Phylogenetically distant symbiotic microorganisms reside in Glossina midgut and ovary tissues

1993 • 133 citations

Bacterial Symbiosis in Arthropods and the Control of Disease Transmission

1998 • 132 citations

Phylogeny and potential transmission routes of midgut-associated endosymbionts of tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae)

1997 • 121 citations

Sterility in tsetse flies (Glossina morsitans Westwood) caused by loss of symbionts

1976 • 118 citations

Rickettsia-like organisms and chitinase production in relation to transmission of trypanosomes by tsetse flies

1993 • 106 citations

Physical and Genetic Map of the Genome of Buchnera, the Primary Endosymbiont of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

1999 • 103 citations

Genetic transformation and phylogeny of bacterial symbionts from tsetse

1993 • 96 citations

Mycetome endosymbionts of tsetse flies constitute a distinct lineage related to Enterobacteriaceae

1995 • 89 citations

In vitrocultivation of rickettsia-like-organisms fromGlossinaspp.

1987 • 88 citations

Molecular analysis of the endosymbionts of tsetse flies: 16S rDNA locus and over‐expression of a chaperonin

1995 • 87 citations

Secretory discharge and microflora of milk gland in tsetse flies

1974 • 83 citations

Prospects for the genetic transformation of arthropods

1998 • 81 citations

Phylogenetic relationships of the endosymbionts of mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) based on 165 rDNA sequences

1992 • 77 citations

Properties of Drosophila simulans strains experimentally infected by different clones of the bacterium Wolbachia

1994 • 71 citations

Long-term occurrence of Trypanosoma congolense resistant to diminazene, isometamidium and homidium in cattle at Ghibe, Ethiopia

1997 • 71 citations

The occurrence of intracellular rickettsia-like organisms in the tsetse flies, Glossina morsitans, G. fuscipes, G. brevipalpis and G. pallidipes.

1974 • 41 citations

The production of “symbiont-free” glossina morsitans and an associated loss of female fertility

1973 • 39 citations

Rickettsia-like organisms, puparial temperature and susceptibility to trypanosome infection in Glossina morsitans

1991 • 38 citations

Control of Trypanosoma brucei brucei infections in tsetse, Glossina morsitans

1997 • 38 citations

Congruent evolution between whiteflies (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) and their bacterial endosymbionts based on respective 18S and 16S rDNAs

1993 • 33 citations

Comparative study on Rickettsia-like organisms in the midgut epithelial cells of differentGlossinaspecies

1991 • 32 citations

The transfer of Wolbachia pipientis and reproductive incompatibility between infected and uninfected strains of the flour beetle, Tribolium confusum, by microinjection

1994 • 32 citations

Cost‐effectiveness analysis of alternative treatments of African gambiense trypanosomiasis in Uganda

1995 • 31 citations

Rickettsial infections of midgut cells are not associated with susceptibility of Glossina morsitans centralis to Trypanosoma congolense infection

1989 • 30 citations

Improved Methods for the Diagnosis of African Trypanosomosis

1999 • 25 citations

The micro-organisms of tsetse flies.

1975 • 19 citations