| Title: |
Preliminary genome assembly of the Wolbachia endosymbiont of the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus sp. 1. |
| Authors: |
Conte, Claudia Alejandra; Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro; Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto; Russo, Romina Maria; Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla; Wulff, Juan Pedro; Handler, Alfred M.; Ragoussis, Ioannis; Segura, Diego Fernando; Bourtzis, Kostas; Lanzavecchia, Silvia Beatriz |
| Source: |
The 3rd International Electronic Conference on Microbiology, 1–3 April 2025 |
| Publisher Information: |
MDPI |
| Publication Year: |
2025 |
| Collection: |
Inta Digital (ID - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria) |
| Subject Terms: |
Wolbachia; Endosimbionte; Mosca de la Fruta; Anastrepha fraterculus; Huéspedes; Estudio de Asociación del Genoma Completo; Endosymbionts; Fruit Flies; Hosts; Genome-wide Association Studies |
| Description: |
Poster ; Wolbachia sp., an alpha-proteobacterium associated with reproductive phenotypes, has been described with a high prevalence in the South American fruit fly, Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera: Tephritidae). Two Wolbachia strains (wAfraCast1_A and wAfraCast2_A) have been identified in A. fraterculus by sequencing 15 loci. The phenotypes associated with the presence of Wolbachia in this fly were female-biased sex ratio in flies carrying wAfraCast1_A, and a protective effect against parasitoids in A. fraterculus larvae harboring wAfraCast2_A (Conte, 2021). To enhance the genetic understanding of this bacteria, we assembled the wAfraCast2_A genome using sequence data from a whole-genome project of A. fraterculus morphotype 1 (Argentina). ; Instituto de Genética ; Fil: Conte, Claudia Alejandra. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Genética. Laboratorio de Insectos de Importancia Agronómica; Argentina ; Fil: Conte, Claudia Alejandra. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina ; Fil: Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina ; Fil: Rivarola, Maximo Lisandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina ; Fil: Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina ; Fil: Gonzalez, Sergio Alberto. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina ; Fil: Russo, Romina Maria. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Genética; Argentina ; Fil: Russo, Romina Maria. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Agrobiotecnología y Biología Molecular (IABIMO); Argentina ; Fil: Scannapieco, Alejandra Carla. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Genética; Argentina ; Fil: Scannapieco, ... |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/23161; https://sciforum.net/paper/view/21738 |
| Availability: |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/23161; https://sciforum.net/paper/view/21738 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.D64314DB |
| Database: |
BASE |