First report on the integration of copepods and Wolbachia to control Aedes larvae in Thailand

Wolbachia is a group of Rickettsia-like, intracellular, maternally inherited bacterial endosymbionts that infect a diverse range of arthropods and cause reproductive changes in their hosts. Mesocyclops thermocyclopoides is a species of copepod crustacean that naturally infected with Wolbachia. While its role in some hosts has been studied extensively, its incidence among copepod species is still largely unknown. Here, we present the first report...