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  • Determining the Effect Wolbachia Pipientis has on Insect Neurological Function and Behaviour

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    Author(s)
    Rohrscheib, Chelsie
    Primary Supervisor
    Brownlie, Jeremy
    Other Supervisors
    Weible, Michael
    Swinderen, Bruno van
    Year published
    2016
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    Abstract
    Symbiotic microbes are commonly found associated in higher organisms, and often have evolved to play an important role in host biology. Researchers have been studying the effects that microbial symbionts have on host physiology, their effects on host nutrition or protection against pathogenic microbial infections, but have recently begun to examine how they influence the brain and behaviour. Wolbachia pipientis, a gram-negative alpha-proteobacteria, intracellular bacterial symbiont infects approximately 40% of all insect species, including Drosophila. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, one of the most intensively studied ...
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    Symbiotic microbes are commonly found associated in higher organisms, and often have evolved to play an important role in host biology. Researchers have been studying the effects that microbial symbionts have on host physiology, their effects on host nutrition or protection against pathogenic microbial infections, but have recently begun to examine how they influence the brain and behaviour. Wolbachia pipientis, a gram-negative alpha-proteobacteria, intracellular bacterial symbiont infects approximately 40% of all insect species, including Drosophila. The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, one of the most intensively studied organisms in biology and serves as a model system for the investigation of many developmental and cellular processes common to higher eukaryotes, and is naturally infected by several strains of Wolbachia. While Wolbachia are known to infect numerous host tissues, including the brain, little research has focused on how Wolbachia affects the nervous system and behaviour of its host, despite the impact behaviour has on host fitness.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
    Degree Program
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    School
    School of Natural Sciences
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/288
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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    Public
    Subject
    Symbiotic microbes
    Microbial symbionts
    Host physiology
    Drosophila melanogaster
    Fruit fly
    Wolbachia Pipientis
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365366
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