Wolbachia Induces Epigenetic and Transcriptional Modifications in the Orthopteran Chorthippus parallelus (Acrididae: Gomphocerinae)
Patricia Jiménez-Florido, Rosario Planelló, David Buckley, José L. Bella · 2026
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Patricia Jiménez-Florido, Rosario Planelló, David Buckley, and José Bella study how a bacterium rewrites gene control in a grasshopper, in a paper dated twenty twenty-six. The bacterium, Wolbachia, lives inside many insects and blocks breeding between infected and clean hosts. It had already been shown to change gene activity in this grasshopper. The team now read chemical gene tags and gene use in the sex organs of infected and clean males and females.
Nine genes tied to tag control were newly described in this species. Infection raised the use of genes that strip tags from proteins, mostly in females. It also lowered the overall share of tagged DNA. The changes may help explain the breeding barrier the bacterium creates.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Patricia Jiménez-Florido, Rosario Planelló, David Buckley, José L. Bella |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 45 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |