1st Edition
Manipulative Tenants Bacteria Associated with Arthropods
Primary and Secondary Symbionts, So Similar, Yet So Different; Fabrice Vavre and Henk R. Braig
Proteobacteria as Primary Endosymbionts of Arthropods; Abdelaziz Heddi and Roy Gross
The Bacteroidetes Blattabacterium and Sulcia as Primary Endosymbionts of Arthropods; M. Montagna, L. Sacchi, N. Lo, E. Clementi, D. Daffonchio, A. Alma, D. Sassera, and C. Bandi
Secondary Symbionts of Insects: Acetic Acid Bacteria; Elena Crotti, Elena Gonella, Irene Ricci, Emanuela Clementi, Mauro Mandrioli, Luciano Sacchi, Guido Favia, Alberto Alma, Kostas Bourtzis, Ameur Cherif, Claudio Bandi, and Daniele Daffonchio
Facultative Tenants from the Enterobacteriaceae within Phloem-Feeding Insects; T.L. Wilkinson
Stammerula and Other Symbiotic Bacteria within the Fruit Flies Inhabiting Asteraceae Flowerheads; Luca Mazzon, Isabel Martinez Sañudo, Claudia Savio, Mauro Simonato, and Andrea Squartini
Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii: Symbiont or Parasite of Tick Mitochondria? D. Pistone, L. Sacchi, N. Lo, S. Epis, M. Pajoro, G. Favia, M. Mandrioli, C. Bandi, and D. Sassera
Rickettsiella, Intracellular Pathogens of Arthropods; Didier Bouchon, Richard Cordaux, and Pierre Grève
Arthropods Shopping for Wolbachia; Daniela Schneider, Wolfgang J. Miller, and Markus Riegler
Host and Symbiont Adaptations Provide Tolerance to Beneficial Microbes: Sodalis and Wigglesworthia Symbioses in Tsetse Flies; Brian L. Weiss, Jingwen Wang, Geoffrey M. Attardo, and Serap Aksoy
Rickettsia Get Around; Yuval Gottlieb, Steve J. Perlman, Elad Chiel, and Einat Zchori-Fein
Cardinium: The Next Addition to the Family of Reproductive Parasites; J.A.J. Breeuwer, V.I.D. Ros, and T.V.M. Groot
The Genus Arsenophonus; Timothy E. Wilkes, Olivier Duron, Alistair C. Darby, Václav Hypša, Eva Nováková, and Gregory D. D. Hurst
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Biography
Kostas Bourtzis, PhD, is a professor of molecular biology, genetics and biochemistry in the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Western Greece. His research is focused on the interactions between insect pests/disease vectors and symbiotic bacteria, with special emphasis on Wolbachia-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility, genetic manipulation of Wolbachia, the molecular mechanism of cytoplasmic incompatibility, and Wolbachia genomics. His group has recently shown that Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility can be used as a means to suppress insect pest populations.
Einat Zchori-Fein, PhD, is a researcher in the Department of Entomology, Agricultural Research Organization, Israel. Her research is focused on the interactions between insect pests and symbiotic bacteria, with special emphasis on the diversity and phenotypes of secondary symbionts of the sweet potato whitefly Bemisia tabaci, horizontal transmission of secondary symbionts, and the multitrophic interactions among plants, plant pathogens, arthropod vectors, and natural enemies.
Per their research interests and personal beliefs, Prof. Bourtzis and Dr. Zchori-Fein are the chair and vice chair of the EU COST Action FA0701, Arthropod Symbioses: From Fundamental Studies to Pest and Disease Management, dedicated to promoting the use of endosymbiotic bacteria as a tool for the development of environmentally friendly approaches for the control of arthropods of medical and agricultural importance.
