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Selected publications

Wolbachia-Drosophila melanogaster:

  1. Chrostek E & Teixeira L (2015) Mutualism Breakdown by Amplification of Wolbachia Genes. PLoS Biology 13(2), e1002065. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002065.
  2. Chrostek E, Marialva MSP, Yamada R, O’Neill SL, Teixeira L (2014) High anti-viral protection without immune upregulation after interspecies Wolbachia transfer. PLoS One 9: e99025. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099025.
  3. Chrostek E, Marialva MSP, Esteves SS, Weinert LA, Martinez J, Jiggins FM, Teixeira L (2013) Wolbachia Variants Induce Differential Protection to Viruses in Drosophila melanogaster: A Phenotypic and Phylogenomic Analysis. PLoS Genetics 9: e1003896. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003896.
  4. Chrostek E & Teixeira L (2018) Within host selection for faster replicating bacterial symbionts. PLoS One 13, e0191530. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191530.

Wolbachia-mosquitoes interaction:

  1. Chrostek E & Gerth M (2019) Is Anopheles gambiae a natural host of Wolbachia? mBio 10. doi: 10.1128/mBio.00784-19.
  2. Chrostek E, Hurst GDD, McGraw E (2020) Infectious Diseases: Antiviral Wolbachia Limits Dengue in Malaysia. Current Biology 30. R30–R32.

Other insects:

  1. Chrostek E, Pelz-Stelinski K, Hurst GDD & Hughes GL (2017) Horizontal Transmission of Intracellular Insect Symbionts via Plants. Frontiers in Microbiology 8. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02237

Symbionts and temperature:

  1. Chrostek E§, Martins NE§, Marialva MS, Teixeira L (2021) Wolbachia-conferred antiviral protection is determined by developmental temperature. mBio 10. doi: 10.1128/mBio.02923-20.
    §Contributed equally
  2. Corbin C, Jones JE, Chrostek E, Fenton A, Hurst GDD (2020) Thermal sensitivity of the Spiroplasma-Drosophila hydei protective symbiosis: The best of climes, the worst of climes. Molecular  Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.15799.
  3. Haziqah-Rashid A, Stobierska K, Glenn L, Metelmann S, Sherlock K, Chrostek E, Blagrove M (2022) Determining Temperature Preference of Mosquitoes and Other Ectotherms.