Diverse Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Microbe-Inducing Male Killing in the Moth Homona magnanima

• Published in: Applied and environmental microbiology Vol. 89; no. 5; p. e0209522
• Main Authors: Arai, Hiroshi, Takamatsu, Takumi, Lin, Shiou-Ruei, Mizutani, Tetsuya, Omatsu, Tsutomu, Katayama, Yukie, Nakai, Madoka, Kunimi, Yasuhisa, Inoue, Maki N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 31.05.2023
• Subjects: Alternative splicing; Animals; Apoptosis; Bacteria; Butterflies & moths; Dosage compensation; Embryos; Evolution; Female; Host-Microbial Interactions; Invertebrate Microbiology; Larva - microbiology; Male; Males; Microorganisms; Molecular modelling; Moths; Reproduction; Reverse transcription; Sex; Sex determination; Spiroplasma; Spiroplasma - genetics; Symbiosis; Transcriptomes; Viruses; Wolbachia; Wolbachia - genetics; Partitiviridae; male killing; Spiroplasma; Wolbachia; endosymbionts; symbiosis

Many microbes induce male killing (MK) in various insect species. However, it is not well understood whether microbes adopt similar or different MK mechanisms. Male killing (MK) is a type of reproductive manipulation induced by microbes, where sons of infected mothers are killed during development....