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Foster JM, Raverdy S, Ganatra MB, Colussi PA, Taron CH, Carlow CK. (2009) The Wolbachia endosymbiont of Brugia malayi has an active phosphoglycerate mutase: a candidate target for anti-filarial therapies. Parasitology Research, 104 (5):1047-52.
Henrichfreise B, Schiefer A, Schneider T, Nzukou E, Poellinger C, Hoffmann TJ, Johnston KL, Moelleken K, Wiedemann I, Pfarr KM, Hoerauf A, Sahl HG. (2009) Functional conservation of the lipid II biosynthesis pathway in the cell wall-less bacteria Chlamydia and Wolbachia: why is lipid II needed? Molecular Microbiology, 73 (5):913-23.
Holman AG, Davis PJ, Foster JM, Carlow CK, Kumar S. (2009) Computational prediction of essential genes in an unculturable endosymbiotic bacterium, Wolbachia of Brugia malayi. BMC Microbiology, 9:243.
Kremer N, Voronin D, Charif D, Mavingui P, Mollereau B, Vavre F. (2009) Wolbachia interferes with ferritin expression and iron metabolism in insects. PLoS Pathogens, 5 (10):e1000630.
Voronin D, Bochernikov AM, Baricheva EM, Zakharov IK, Kiseleva EV.(2009) Influence of Drosophila melanogaster genotype on biological effects of endocymbiont Wolbachia (stamm wMelPop) Tsitologiia, 51 (4):335-45.
Voronin D, Tran-Van V, Potier P, Mavingui P. (2009) Transinfection and growth discrepancy of Drosophila Wolbachia strain wMel in cell lines of the mosquito Aedes albopictus. Journal of Applied Microbiology, Nov 10. [Epub ahead of print].
Wu B, Novelli J, Foster JM, Vaisvila R, Conway L, Ingram J, Ganatra M, Rao AU, Hamza I, Slatko B. (2009) The Heme Biosynthetic Pathway of the Obligate Wolbachia Endosymbiont of Brugia malayi as a Potential Anti-filarial Drug Target. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 3 (7):e475.
Zouache K, Voronin D, Tran-Van V, Mavingui P. (2009) Composition of bacterial communities associated with natural and laboratory populations of Asobara tabida infected with Wolbachia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 75 (11):3755-64.
Zouache K, Voronin D, Tran-Van V, Mousson L, Failloux AB, Mavingui P. (2009) Persistent Wolbachia and cultivable bacteria infection in the reproductive and somatic tissues of the mosquito vector Aedes albopictus. PLoS One 4 (7):e6388.
Arumugam S, Pfarr KM, Hoerauf A. (2008) Infection of the intermediate mite host with Wolbachia-depleted Litomosoides sigmodontis microfilariae: impaired L1 to L3 development and subsequent sex-ratio distortion in adult worms. International Journal for Parasitology, 38 (8-9):981-7.
Foster JM, Kumar S, Ford L, Johnston KL, Ben R, Graeff-Teixeira C, Taylor MJ. (2008) Absence of Wolbachia endobacteria in the non-filariid nematodes Angiostrongylus cantonensis and A. costaricensis. Parasitology & Vectors, 1 (1):31.
Pfarr KM, Heider U, Schmetz C, Büttner DW, Hoerauf A. (2008) The mitochondrial heat shock protein 60 (HSP60) is up-regulated in Onchocerca volvulus after the depletion of Wolbachia. Parasitology, 135 (4):529-38.
Raverdy S, Foster JM, Roopenian E, Carlow CK. (2008) The Wolbachia endosymbiont of Brugia malayi has an active pyruvate phosphate dikinase. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 160 (2):163-6.
Brownlie JC, Adamski M, Slatko B, McGraw EA. (2007) Diversifying selection and host adaptation in two endosymbiont genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7:68.
Ghedin E, Wang S, Spiro D, Caler E, Zhao Q, Crabtree J, Allen JE, Delcher AL, Guiliano DB, Miranda-Saavedra D, Angiuoli SV, Creasy T, Amedeo P, Haas B, El-Sayed NM, Wortman JR, Feldblyum T, Tallon L, Schatz M, Shumway M, Koo H, Salzberg SL, Schobel S, Pertea M, Pop M, White O, Barton GJ, Carlow CK, Crawford MJ, Daub J, Dimmic MW, Estes CF, Foster JM, Ganatra M, Gregory WF, Johnson NM, Jin J, Komuniecki R, Korf I, Kumar S, Laney S, Li BW, Li W, Lindblom TH, Lustigman S, Ma D, Maina CV, Martin DM, McCarter JP, McReynolds L, Mitreva M, Nutman TB, Parkinson J, Peregrín-Alvarez JM, Poole C, Ren Q, Saunders L, Sluder AE, Smith K, Stanke M, Unnasch TR, Ware J, Wei AD, Weil G, Williams DJ, Zhang Y, Williams SA, Fraser-Liggett C, Slatko B, Blaxter ML, Scott AL. (2007) Draft genome of the filarial nematode parasite Brugia malayi. Science, 317 (5845):1756-60.
Hotopp JC, Clark ME, Oliveira DC, Foster JM, Fischer P, Torres MC, Giebel JD, Kumar N, Ishmael N, Wang S, Ingram J, Nene RV, Shepard J, Tomkins J, Richards S, Spiro DJ, Ghedin E, Slatko B, Tettelin H, Werren JH (2007). Widespread lateral gene transfer from intracellular bacteria to multicellular eukaryotes. Science, 317 (5845):1753-6.
Pfarr KM, Foster JM, Slatko B, Hoerauf A, Eisen JA. (2007) On the taxonomic status of the intracellular bacterium Wolbachia pipientis: should this species name include the intracellular bacteria of filarial nematodes? International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 57 (Pt 8):1677-8.
Heider U, Blaxter M, Hoerauf A, Pfarr KM. (2006) Differential display of genes expressed in the filarial nematode Litomosoides sigmodontis reveals a putative phosphate permease up-regulated after depletion of Wolbachia endobacteria. International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 296 (4-5):287-99.
Foster JM, Ganatra M, Kamal I, Ware J, Makarova K, Ivanova N, Bhattacharya A, Kapatral V, Kumar S, Posfai J, Vincze T, Ingram J, Moran L, Lapidus A, Omelchenko M, Kyrpides N, Ghedin E, Wang S, Goltsman E, Joukov V, Ostrovskaya O, Tsukerman K, Mazur M, Comb D, Koonin E, Slatko B. (2005) The Wolbachia Genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont Evolution within a Human Pathogenic Nematode. PLoS Biology, 3 (4):e121.
Foster JM, Baldo L, Blaxter M, Henkle-Dührsen K, Whitton C, Slatko B, Bandi C. (2004) The bacterial catalase from filarial DNA preparations derives from common pseudomonad contaminants and not from Wolbachia endosymbionts. Parasitology Research, 94 (2):141-6.
Foster JM, Kumar S, Ganatra M, Kamal I, Ware J, Ingram J, Pope-Chappell J, Guiliano D, Whitton C, Daub J, Blaxter ML, Slatko B. (2004) Construction of bacterial artificial chromosome libraries from the parasitic nematode Brugia malayi and physical mapping of the genome of its Wolbachia endosymbiont. International Journal for Parasitology, 34:733-746.
McGarry HF, Egerton G, Taylor MJ. (2004) Population dynamics of Wolbachia bacterial endosymbionts in Brugia malayi. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology, 135;57-67.
Fenollar F, La Scola B, Inokuma H, Dumler JS, Taylor MJ, Raoult D. (2003) Culture and phenotypic characterization of a Wolbachia pipientis isolate. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 41 (12): 5434-41.
McGarry HF, Pfarr KM, Egerton G, Hoerauf A, Akue JP, Enyong P, Wanji S, Kläger SL, Bianco AE, Beeching NJ, Taylor MJ. (2003) Evidence against Wolbachia symbiosis in Loa loa. Filaria Journal, 2 (1):9.
Casiraghi M, McCall JW, Simoncini L, Kramer LH, Sacchi L, Genchi C, Werren JH, Bandi C. (2002) Tetracycline treatment and sex-ratio distortion: A role for Wolbachia in the moulting of filarial nematodes? International Journal for Parasitology, 32:1457-1468.
Ware J, Moran L, Foster JM, Posfai J, Vincze T, Guiliano D, Blaxter M, Eisen J, Slatko B. (2002) Sequencing and analysis of a 63 kb bacterial artificial chromosome insert from the Wolbachia endosymbiont of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi. International Journal for Parasitology, 32 (2):159-66.
Williams SA, Lizotte-Waniewski MR, Foster JM, Guiliano D, Daub J, Scott AL, Slatko B, Blaxter ML. (2000) The filarial genome project: analysis of the nuclear, mitochondrial and endosymbiont genomes of Brugia malayi. International Journal for Parasitology, 30 (4):411-9.
Bandi C, Slatko B, O'Neill SL. (1999) Wolbachia genomes and the many faces of symbiosis. Parasitology Today,15 (11):428-9.
Slatko B, O'Neill SL, Scott AL, Werren JL, Blaxter ML. (1999) The Wolbachia Genome Consortium. Microbial & Comparative Genomics, 4 (3):161-5.
Taylor MJ, Bilo K, Cross HF, Archer JP, Underwood AP. (1999) 16S rDNA phylogeny and ultrastructural characterization of Wolbachia intracellular bacteria of the filarial nematodes Brugia malayi, B. pahangi, and Wuchereria bancrofti. Experimental Parasitology, 91 (4): 356-61.