Impact of Wolbachia on oxidative stress sensitivity in the parasitic wasp Asobara japonica.

ABSTRACT: The oxidative homeostasis is the balance between reactive oxygen species and antioxidant molecules. In addition to be considered as a key factor underlying life-history traits evolution, the oxidative homeostasis has been shown to be involved in many host-symbiont associations. Previous studies suggest an interaction between the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia and the oxidative homeostasis of some insect hosts. This interaction is likely to exert a strong influence on the host evolution, as it has been proposed in the wasp Asobara tabida, whose dependence upon Wolbachia is due to the evolutionary loss of its ability to regulate the oxidative homeostasis in the absence of the symbiont. Although such cases of complete dependence are rare, cases of insects having lost only a part of their au

SUBMITTER: Monnin D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5398613 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature