Wolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?
Svitlana Serga, Pavlo A. Kovalenko, Oleksandr M. Maistrenko, Gwenaëlle Deconninck, Oleksandra Shevchenko, Nataliia Iakovenko, Yurii Protsenko, Andrij Susulovsky, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Mariia Pavlovska, Peter Convey, Iryna Kozeretska · 2024
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Description
Svitlana Serga and co-authors wrote a study from 2024 that asks whether a famed insect bacterium lives in Antarctica. The bacterium, named Wolbachia, infects many small animals without backbones and can bend how they breed. The cold continent is a stark test of where such partnerships can hold. The team searched past reports for each main group of land invertebrates there.
They also mined gene data from Antarctic samples with two hunt tools. They found no reports and no gene trace of the bacterium in mites, springtails, flies, or the other groups checked. The paper weighs why it may truly be absent, from the harsh climate to the isolation of the hosts. It also notes that sampling has been thin, so a firm answer needs more targeted hunts. Either way, the gap sets a baseline for work on Antarctic symbiosis.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Svitlana Serga, Pavlo A. Kovalenko, Oleksandr M. Maistrenko, Gwenaëlle Deconninck, Oleksandra Shevchenko, Nataliia Iakovenko, Yurii Protsenko, Andrij Susulovsky, Łukasz Kaczmarek, Mariia Pavlovska, Peter Convey, Iryna Kozeretska |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 68 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |