Wolbachia infection frequencies in insects: evidence of a global equilibrium?

By John H. Werren, D. Windsor. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2000

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Multilocus Sequence Typing System for the Endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis (2006, background): “Individual insects can be infected with multiple Wolbachia strains (24, 55, 58), and geographically distinct populations of the same species can harbor different strains (29, 39).”
Insect Gut Bacterial Diversity Determined by Environmental Habitat, Diet, Developmental Stage, and Phylogeny of Host (2014, background): “Members of the genus Wolbachia infect many members of the Arthropoda (53, 54) and were predominant among the heritable symbionts identified.”
How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data (2008, background): “The infection rate of Wolbachia is generally estimated to be at least 20% (Werren et al., 1995; Werren & Windsor, 2000).”
Still a Host of Hosts for Wolbachia: Analysis of Recent Data Suggests That 40% of Terrestrial Arthropod Species Are Infected (2012, neutral): “Previous broad taxon surveys of Wolbachia infection frequencies among arthropods found approximately 20% of the tested species to be infected [3,4].”
Problems with mitochondrial DNA as a marker in population, phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies: the effects of inherited symbionts (2005, background): “In large surveys, repeatable over geographical regions and across arthropod groups, Wolbachia alone infects in excess of 20% of insect species at any point in time (Werren et al. 1995; Werren & Windsor 2000; Jiggins et al. 2001) and, in a limited survey, just over 50% of spiders (Rowley et al. 200”
Phylogenomics of the Reproductive Parasite Wolbachia pipientis wMel: A Streamlined Genome Overrun by Mobile Genetic Elements (2004, neutral): “Wolbachia are transovarialy transmitted from females to their offspring and are extremely widespread, having been found to infect 20%–75% of invertebrate species sampled (Jeyaprakash and Hoy 2000; Werren and Windsor 2000).”