Talk:Wolbachia

message: Page should be reworded to avoid the implication that Wolbachia only infects arthropods.  It is mentioned on the page that the bacteria infects nematodes as well, suggesting it infects species within the clade Ecdysozoa.  Not sure about this, but should be fixed.  Andruid (talk) 15:37, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewording needed

message: -This entire page, down to the references, is exacly the same as the Wolbachia page on answers.com, which I didn't see cited.  Who's copying from whom? Kate I, April 12th
:Answers.com copies from wikipedia, Kate I. See its article. --ChrisJMoor 14:52, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio?

message: Andolfatto P, Scriber JM, Charlesworth B. No association between mitochondrial DNA haplotypes and a female-limited mimicry phenotype in Papilio glaucus.  Evolution. 2003 Feb;57(2):305-16.
Abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683527 
Has anyone studied associations between Wolbachia strains and lepidopteran morphs ? Shyamal (talk) 04:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok there seems to be theoretical support SASAKI Akira ; KAWAGUCHI Isao ; YOSHIMORI Akira (2002) Spatial mosaic and interfacial dynamics in a Müllerian mimicry system. Theoretical population biology 61(1):49-71 
http://bio-math10.biology.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~sasaki/HP/pdf-paper/TPB2002.pdf but looks like nobody has done field studies. Shyamal (talk) 05:14, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lepidopteran mimicry links 

message: It is unclear what is the meaning of the following sentence near the middle of this section:  "...in an excellent promise for...suppression."  Should that be "...showing excellent promise for...suppression." maybe?    148.177.1.211 (talk) 16:03, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Applications to human health 

message: Charlat, S., Hurst, G.D., Mercot, H. (2003). Evolutionary consequences of Wolbachia infections. Trends in Genetics. 19(4):217–23. http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/jaz/eecb752/lecture04/charlat2003.pdf
Dobson, S.L., Bourtzis, K., Braig, H.R., Jones, B.F., Zhou, W., Rousset, F., O’Neill, S.L. (1999). Wolbachia infections are distributed throughout insect somatic and germ line tissues. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 29(2): 153–160. http://www.uky.edu/~sdobson/OpenAccess/Publ/Tropism.pdf
Wu, K., Hoy, M.A. (2012). Extended starvation reduced and eliminated Wolbachia, but not Cardinium, from Metaseiulus occidentalis females (Acari: Phytoseiidae): a need to reassess Wolbachia’s status in this predatory mite? Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 109(1): 20–26 http://hy2ju6vj2n.search.serialssolutions.com.ezp.slu.edu/?genre=article&issn=00222011&title=Journal%20of%20Invertebrate%20Pathology&volume=109&issue=1&date=20120101&atitle=Extended%20starvation%20reduced%20and%20eliminated%20Wolbachia%2C%20but%20not%20Cardinium%2C%20from%20Metaseiulus%20occidentalis%20females%20%28Acari%3A%20Phytoseiidae%29%3A%20A%20need%20to%20reassess%20Wolbachia%E2%80%99s%20status%20in%20this%20predatory%20mite%3F&spage=20&pages=20-26&sid=EBSCO:ScienceDirect&aulast=Wu,%20Ke
Li, Y.Y., Fields, P.G., Pang, B.P., Coghlin, P.C., Floate, K.D. (2015). Prevalence and diversity of Wolbachia bacteria infecting insect pests of stored products. Journal of Stored Products Research. 62: 93-100. http://hy2ju6vj2n.search.serialssolutions.com.ezp.slu.edu/?genre=article&issn=0022474X&title=Journal%20of%20Stored%20Products%20Research&volume=62&issue=&date=20150501&atitle=Prevalence%20and%20diversity%20of%20Wolbachia%20bacteria%20infecting%20insect%20pests%20of%C2%A0stored%20products&spage=93&pages=93-100&sid=EBSCO:ScienceDirect&aulast=Li,%20Y.-Y.
Gern Blanston 13 (talk) 15:25, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helpful References 

message: Here are some articles I found that will help begin a new section on Trichogramma wasps on the Wolbachia page:
Huigens, M. E., et al. 2004. Natural interspecific and intraspecific horizontal transfer of parthenogenesis–inducing wolbachia in trichogramma wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 271: 509-515.
Werren, John H. 1997. Biology of wolbachia. Annual review of entomology 42: 587-609.
Grenier, Simon, et al. 1998. Successful horizontal transfer of Wolbachia symbionts between Trichogramma wasps. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 265: 1441-1445.
Bourtzis, Kostas, O'Neill, Scott. 1998. Wolbachia Infections and Arthropod Reproduction. Bioscience 48: 287-293.
BlueBioBill (talk) 00:45, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wolbachia in Trichogramma wasps 

message: Although the article contains a lot of information and evolutionary application of Wolbochia, I found that the article lacks in its organization and its clarity. In order to fix a lot of these unclear statements, I suggest cutting down the wordiness. One example, “In leafminers of the species Phyllonorycter blancardella, Wolbachia bacteria help their hosts produce green islands on yellowing tree leaves, allowing the hosts to continue feeding while growing to their adult forms." could be reduced. Additionally, the language should be made simpler for the everyday reader, rather than very verbose.
In regards to organizations, parts of the Role in sexual differentiation of hosts became quite cluttered with different sets of information. What originally was role in sexual differentiation of hosts became speciation. That being said, I formed two new sections: method of sexual differentiation in hosts and effects of sexual differentiation in hosts.
In regards to its clarity, many parts of the article, especially the “applications to human health” are incredibly dense materials. Partly the reason why is that they are from studies that are primary sources. For example the Effect of Wolbachia on the replication of West Nile virus does not seem to be a reliable source since it is a very recent study that may or may not have a review study that supports the data. That being said, I am unsure if this should be on Wikipedia since the detail of information should be on Wikipedia if the data has not been supported yet by review studies.  In general, don’t rely too much on primary sources for the article. 
As the applications to human health section continues it becomes more obscure and unrelated to the original topic. Suggest to organize the information appropriately.
Cheungd (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 04:15, 16 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Review

message: Changed status to C. The lead is nowhere near complete and contains info not in the body - that on neotropical insects.--Iztwoz (talk) 07:02, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

message: This section seems unclear on the mechanism(s) by which Wolbachia reduces the spread of disease. The passage
:"Computational models predict that introducing Wolbachia strains into natural populations will reduce pathogen transmission and reduce overall disease burden.[49] An example includes Wolbachia that can be used to control dengue and malaria by eliminating the older insects that contain more parasites."
makes it seem that the mechanism is primarily that Wolbachia infected mosquitos don't live long enough to become infected with dengue or transmit it.  Is this correct?  I thought Wolbachia more directly inhibited the reproduction of the dengue virus within a host mosquito. Perhaps the passage means to say that in addition to a direct mechanism, Wolbachia has a ancillary benefit via
:"Promoting the survival and reproduction of younger insects lessens selection pressure for evolution of resistance".
David McArthur (talk) 20:11, 8 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wolbachia used to prevent disease 

message: This organism is featured heavily in a plot point in the game Metal Gear Solid V (https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Wolbachia) perhaps an “In fiction” section could be added? Hobbesdream (talk) 18:41, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metal Gear Solid V