Absence of Wolbachia in the sub-Antarctic midge, Eretmoptera murphyi (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Octavia Brayley; Scott Hayward; Kirsty McCready; Shengwei Liu; Yin Chen; Sami Ullah; Nicholas Teets; Peter Convey

doi:10.1017/S0954102025000197

Absence of Wolbachia in the sub-Antarctic midge, Eretmoptera murphyi (Diptera: Chironomidae)

Octavia Brayley^*
, Scott Hayward
, Kirsty McCready
, Shengwei Liu
, Yin Chen
, Sami Ullah
, Nicholas Teets
, Peter Convey

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Journal	Antarctic Science
Early online date	11 Jun 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102025000197
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 11 Jun 2025

Keywords

Antarctica
endosymbiotic bacteria
invertebrate
microbiome
parthenogenesis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Oceanography
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Geology

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Pesticide impacts on beneficial insect environmental adaptation
Hayward, S. (Principal Investigator)
Leverhulme Trust
1/09/24 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
NSFGEO-NERC: Mechanisms of Adaptation to Terrestrial Antarctica through Comparative Physiology and Genomics of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Insects
Hayward, S. (Principal Investigator)
Natural Environment Research Council
1/11/19 → 31/07/24
Project: Research

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Absence of Wolbachia in the sub-Antarctic midge, Eretmoptera murphyi (Diptera: Chironomidae)

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Projects

Pesticide impacts on beneficial insect environmental adaptation

NSFGEO-NERC: Mechanisms of Adaptation to Terrestrial Antarctica through Comparative Physiology and Genomics of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic Insects

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