Hi all, how are you? is there any information about Wolbachia effects on its host organ size?
I mean can Wolbachia decrease size of some body organs such as nervous system, ovariols or some thing like this?
Rupinder Kaur
There is an interesting example of Wolbachia in Drosophila paulistorum, where it acts as an obligate mutualist. If you take out Wolbachia, D.pau develops dystrophic ovaries, means the ovarioles don't mature. So, the ovaries are there, but with small size and abnormal shape, having degenerated nurse cell nuclei.
Here is the article link: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1001214#ppat-1001214-g004
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