Host-microbe interactions between the tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans) and its secondary symbiont Sodalis glossinidius and their impact on trypanosome parasites Universiteit Gent
Tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) are medically and agriculturally important vectors that transmit Trypanosoma spp. parasites responsible for human sleeping sickness and animal African trypanosomiasis. The tsetse fly is colonized by a low diversity microbiota with only two symbiotic bacterial species (family Enterobacteriaceae) present in the midgut and other tsetse tissues: an anciently associated mutualist Wigglesworthia glossinidia and a more ...