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kaurr.bsky.social
🚨 Fresh off! Please check out our recent paper on #Wolbachia #phageWO proteins messing with sperm lncRNA and DNA integrity to eventually kill embryos.

#TAGC24 @GeneticsGSA drop by my poster (P1266T) tonight to learn more about this work.
June 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social
borrowed from 𝕏 for #phagesky & #MicroSky & @symbionticism.bsky.social

Rupinder Kaur, PhD @KaurTweets
🚨 Fresh off! Please check out our recent paper on #Wolbachia #phageWO proteins messing with sperm lncRNA and DNA integrity to eventually kill embryos.

www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Fig. 3. Electron micrograph of phage WO isolated from the Wolbachiainfected CR strain. The white arrow indicates a phage-like particle with complete tail structure (enlarged in the inset). Scale bar ¼ 100nm. [source: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IBMB.2005.11.001]
March 7, 2024 at 10:23 PM
symbionticism.bsky.social
~85% of animal species are Arthropods.
~50% of them harbor a Wolbachia symbiont.
~99% of arthropod Wolbachia harbor phage WO.
-#phageWO proteins hijack gametes/embryos to spread Wolbachia
-Sarah Bordenstein details how to isolate these phages. Ping for a free copy.

link.springer.com/protocol/10....
Isolation of Phage WO Particles from Wolbachia-Infected Arthropods
Nearly all arthropod-associated Wolbachia contain intact and/or genomic remnants of phage WO, temperate bacteriophages that facilitate horizontal gene transfer, genomic rearrangement of the bacterial ...
link.springer.com
November 28, 2023 at 2:00 PM
amanzanom.bsky.social
Hey #SymbioSky! (@symbionticism.bsky.social, @amelialindsey.bsky.social, @shropshirejd.bsky.social???)

I'm preparing material for a lecture on phages of beneficial endosymbionts. Looking for an up-to-date review on #phageWO and/or #Wolbachia....
September 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM