New cell lines derived from larvae of the neotropical fruit fly Drosophila willistoni persistently infected with Wolbachia
Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Elina Koivisto, Anton Strunov, Catherine Hartley, Jing Jing Khoo, Ewa Chrostek, Aurélie Hua-Van, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Wolfgang J. Miller · 2026
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Lesley Bell-Sakyi heads a team that built new fly cell lines in a 2026 paper, working with Drosophila willistoni, a tropical fruit fly from Costa Rica. Hundreds of fly cell lines exist, yet nearly all come from one species, Drosophila melanogaster, and none from tropical flies.
A simple method turned three larval cultures into lasting lines named DWL/LULS68, DWL/LULS70, and DWL/LULS72. All three carried Wolbachia, a bacterium that lives inside fly cells, typed as strain wWil. Long treatment with tetracycline cleared the bacterium and gave clean sublines from each line. Gene tests, chromosome counts, and probe staining proved the cells truly came from D. willistoni. The lines are expected to aid study of this species and its bacterial partners in many ways.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Lesley Bell-Sakyi, Elina Koivisto, Anton Strunov, Catherine Hartley, Jing Jing Khoo, Ewa Chrostek, Aurélie Hua-Van, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Wolfgang J. Miller |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49935 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |