Thomas H. Ant

The paper establishes stable Anopheles mosquito colonies carrying Microsporidia sp. MB and shows MB affects fecundity and spore production.

This study shows that expressing cifA and cifB genes from Wolbachia strain wAlbB in Aedes aegypti testes induces CI-like sterility, which can be rescued by maternal cifA expression.

The paper identifies two genomic variants of Wolbachia strain wAlbB, showing differences in gene content and density that correlate with environmental tolerance and stability in mosquito populations.

The paper sequenced the Wolbachia strain wAlbA and found it associated with plasmids, revealing that such plasmids are common in Wolbachia and may contribute to host-symbiont interactions.