THE KAUR LAB

Histone acetylation modulation by a small molecule inhibitor recapitulates symbiont-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

Rupinder Kaur, Mahip Kalra, Madangchanok Imchen, Bailey L. Crowley, Angelina McGarry, Leah Carpenter, Seth R. Bordenstein

Cell Reports, vol. 44(10), 2025, p. 116416

Prophage proteins alter long noncoding RNA and DNA of developing sperm to induce a paternal-effect lethality

Rupinder Kaur, Angelina McGarry, J Dylan Shropshire, Brittany A Leigh, Seth R Bordenstein

Science, vol. 383, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2024, pp. 1111--1117

The mechanism of cytoplasmic incompatibility is conserved in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes deployed for arbovirus control

Rupinder Kaur, Cole J Meier, Elizabeth A McGraw, Julian F Hillyer, Seth R Bordenstein

PLoS biology, vol. 22, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2024, pp. e3002573

Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: a centennial review

Rupinder Kaur, J Dylan Shropshire, Karissa L Cross, Brittany Leigh, Alexander J Mansueto, Victoria Stewart, Sarah R Bordenstein, Seth R Bordenstein

Cell host \& microbe, vol. 29, Elsevier, 2021, pp. 879--893

Age, tissue, genotype and virus infection regulate Wolbachia levels in Drosophila

Rupinder Kaur, Julien Martinez, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Francis M Jiggins, Wolfgang J Miller

Molecular Ecology, vol. 29, 2020, pp. 2063--2079

Histone acetylation modulation by a small molecule inhibitor recapitulates symbiont-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility

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Cytoplasmic incompatibility factor proteins from Wolbachia prophage are costly to sperm development in Drosophila melanogaster

Rupinder Kaur, Seth R Bordenstein

Proceedings B, vol. 292, The Royal Society, 2025, p. 20243016

Evolutionary Diversification and Functions of the Candidate Male Killing Gene wmk

Genome biology and evolution, vol. 17(10), 2025, pp. evaf179

Gut-Germline Axis: A Reproductive Endosymbiont’s Adaptation is Modulated by the Gut Microbiome

Madangchanok Imchen, Rupinder Kaur, Darlene Huilin Zhou Luo, Mia W Bitman, Emilie Lefoulon, Angelina McGarry, Sarah R Bordenstein, Seth R Bordenstein

bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2024, pp. 2024--09

Prophage proteins alter long noncoding RNA and DNA of developing sperm to induce a paternal-effect lethality

Rupinder Kaur, Angelina McGarry, J Dylan Shropshire, Brittany A Leigh, Seth R Bordenstein

Science, vol. 383, 2024, pp. 1111--1117

The mechanism of cytoplasmic incompatibility is conserved in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes deployed for arbovirus control

Rupinder Kaur, Cole J Meier, Elizabeth A McGraw, Julian F Hillyer, Seth R Bordenstein

PLoS biology, vol. 22, 2024, pp. e3002573

The Cif proteins from Wolbachia prophage WO modify sperm genome integrity to establish cytoplasmic incompatibility

Rupinder Kaur, Brittany A Leigh, Isabella T Ritchie, Seth R Bordenstein

PLoS Biology, vol. 20, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2022, pp. e3001584

Transgenic cytoplasmic incompatibility persists across age and temperature variation in Drosophila melanogaster

Isabella T Ritchie, Kelly T Needles, Brittany A Leigh, Rupinder Kaur, Seth R Bordenstein

Iscience, vol. 25, Elsevier, 2022

Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: a centennial review

Rupinder Kaur, J Dylan Shropshire, Karissa L Cross, Brittany Leigh, Alexander J Mansueto, Victoria Stewart, Sarah R Bordenstein, Seth R Bordenstein

Cell host & microbe, vol. 29, 2021, pp. 879--893

Age, tissue, genotype and virus infection regulate Wolbachia levels in Drosophila

Rupinder Kaur, Julien Martinez, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Francis M Jiggins, Wolfgang J Miller

Molecular Ecology, vol. 29, 2020, pp. 2063--2079

Distinct genotypes and phenotypes in European and American strains of Drosophila suzukii: implications for biology and management of an invasive organism

Omar Rota-Stabelli, Lino Ometto, Gabriella Tait, Silvia Ghirotto, Rupinder Kaur, Francesco Drago, Josefa Gonz{\'a}lez, Vaughn M Walton, Gianfranco Anfora, Marco Valerio Rossi-Stacconi

Journal of Pest Science, vol. 93, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2020, pp. 77--89

Molecular and morphological characterisation of a novel microsporidian species, Tubulinosema suzukii, infecting Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Sarah Biganski, J{\"o}rg T Wennmann, Charles R Vossbrinck, Rupinder Kaur, Johannes A Jehle, Regina G Kleespies

Journal of invertebrate pathology, vol. 174, Academic Press, 2020, p. 107440

Wolbachia modifies thermal preference in Drosophila melanogaster

Amy M Truitt, Martin Kapun, Rupinder Kaur, Wolfgang J Miller

Environmental microbiology, vol. 21, John Wiley \& Sons, Inc. Hoboken, USA, 2019, pp. 3259--3268

Insertion sequence polymorphism and genomic rearrangements uncover hidden Wolbachia diversity in Drosophila suzukii and D. subpulchrella

Rupinder Kaur, Stefanos Siozios, Wolfgang J Miller, Omar Rota-Stabelli

Scientific reports, vol. 7, Nature Publishing Group UK London, 2017, p. 14815

Multiple lines of evidence for reproductive winter diapause in the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii: useful clues for control strategies

Marco Valerio Rossi-Stacconi, Rupinder Kaur, Valerio Mazzoni, Lino Ometto, Alberto Grassi, Angela Gottardello, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Gianfranco Anfora

Journal of pest science, vol. 89, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016, pp. 689--700

The evolution of olfactory gene families in Drosophila and the genomic basis of chemical-ecological adaptation in Drosophila suzukii

Sukanya Ramasamy, Lino Ometto, Cristina M Crava, Santosh Revadi, Rupinder Kaur, David S Horner, Davide Pisani, Teun Dekker, Gianfranco Anfora, Omar Rota-Stabelli

Genome biology and evolution, vol. 8, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 2297--2311

Wolbachia in European populations of the invasive pest Drosophila suzukii: regional variation in infection frequencies

Julien Cattel, Rupinder Kaur, Patricia Gibert, Julien Martinez, Antoine Fraimout, Francis Jiggins, Thibault Andrieux, Stefanos Siozios, Gianfranco Anfora, Wolfgang Miller, others

PLoS One, vol. 11, Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA, 2016, pp. e0147766

Characterization of beta-casein gene in Indian riverine buffalo

PV Vinesh, Biswajit Brahma, Rupinder Kaur, Tirtha Kumar Datta, Surender Lal Goswami, Sachinandan De

Gene, vol. 527, Elsevier, 2013, pp. 683--688

Draft genome sequence of the Wolbachia endosymbiont of Drosophila suzukii

Stefanos Siozios, Alessandro Cestaro, Rupinder Kaur, Ilaria Pertot, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Gianfranco Anfora

Genome announcements, vol. 1, American Society for Microbiology 1752 N St., NW, Washington, DC, 2013, pp. 10--1128