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. 2022 Sep 13;12(9):e9219. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9219

TABLE 1.

Negative fitness effects of CI‐inducing Wolbachia

Wolbachia supergroup Genera Species Wolbachia strain Host sex Negative effect Reference
A Drosophila

D. melanogaster

A‐wMelPop Female/Male Tissue degeneration, reduced life span Min and Benzer (1997), Reynolds et al. (2003)
A‐wMelPop Female/Male Decreased response to food cues Peng et al. (2008)
A‐wMel Female Reduced body size Hoffmann et al. (1998)
A‐wMel Female Reduced fecundity after a dormancy period Kriesner et al. (2016)
D simulans A‐wRi Female Reduction in fecundity Hoffmann and Turelli (1988), Hoffmann et al. (1990)
A‐wRi Female Reduction in fecundity Snook et al. (2000)
A‐wRi Male Lesser sperm cysts, reduced fertility Snook et al. (2000)
A‐wHa Female Reduction in fecundity Fytrou et al. (2006)
A‐wHa Female/Male Reduced thorax length, reduction in an immune response against parasitoid infection Fytrou et al. (2006)
A‐wRi Male Reduced sperm competition De Crespigny and Wedell (2006)
D. suzukii A‐wSuz Female Reduced progeny family size Hamm et al. (2014)
B Aedes A. albopictus A‐wAlb, B‐wAlb Female Reduced life span, reduction in fecundity Islam and Dobson (2006), Suh et al. (2009)
A. aegypti A‐wMelPop Female Reduced life span, reduction in fecundity Ross et al. (2019)
A‐wMelPop Female/Male Reduced life span McMeniman et al. (2009)
A‐wMelPop Female Reduction in fecundity, reduced blood‐feeding success Allman et al. (2020), Turley et al. (2009)
Culex C. pipiens B‐wPip Female/Male Embryonic mortality Duron et al. (2006)
C. quinquefasciatus B‐wPip Female Reduced fecundity Almeida et al. (2011)