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Table 1 Wolbachia prevalence in laboratory lines and natural populations of different Glossina species.

From: Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in laboratory and natural populations of different species of tsetse flies (genus Glossina)

Glossina species

Country (area, collection date)

Prevalence

G. m. morsitans

Zambia (MFWE, Eastern Zambia, 2007)

(122/122) 100.0%

 

KARI-TRC lab-colony (2008)1

(89/89) 100.0%

 

Tanzania (Ruma, 2005)

(100/100) 100.0%

 

Zimbabwe (Gokwe, 2006)

(7/74) 9.5%

 

Zimbabwe (Kemukura, 2006)

(26/26) 100.0%

 

Zimbabwe (M.Chiuy, 1994)

(33/36) 91.7%

 

Zimbabwe (Makuti, 2006)

(95/99) 96.0%

 

Zimbabwe (Mukond, 1994)

(35/36) 97.2%

 

Zimbabwe (Mushumb, 2006)

(3/8) 37.5%

 

Zimbabwe (Rukomeshi, 2006)

(98/100) 98.0%

 

Yale lab-colony (2008)2

(5/5) 100.0%

 

Antwerp lab-colony (2010)3

(10/10) 100.0%

 

Bratislava lab-colony (2010)4

(5/5) 100.0%

G. pallidipes

Zambia (MFWE, Eastern Zambia, 2007)

(5/203) 2.5%

 

KARI-TRC lab-colony (2008)

(3/99) 3.0%

 

Kenya (Mewa, Katotoi and Meru national park, 2007)

(0/470) 0.0%

 

Ethiopia (Arba Minch, 2007)

(2/454) 0.4%

 

Seibersdorf lab-colony (2008)5

(0/138) 0.0%

 

Tanzania (Ruma, 2005)

(3/83) 3.6%

 

Tanzania (Mlembuli and Tunguli, 2009)

(0/94) 0.0%

 

Zimbabwe (Mushumb, 2006)

(0/50) 0.0%

 

Zimbabwe (Gokwe, 2006)

(0/150) 0.0%

 

Zimbabwe (Rukomeshi, 2006)

(5/59) 8.5%

 

Zimbabwe (Makuti, 2006)

(4/96) 4.2%

G. austeni

Tanzania (Jozani, 1997)

(22/42) 52.4%

 

Tanzania (Zanzibar, 1995)

(75/78) 96.2%

 

South Africa (Zululand, 1999)

(79/83) 95.2%

 

Kenya (Shimba Hills, 2010)

(30/30) 100.0%

G. p. palpalis

Seibersdorf lab-colony (1995)6

(0/36) 0.0%

 

Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire, 1995)

(0/48) 0.0%

G. p. gambiensis

CIRDES lab-colony (1995)7

(0/32) 0.0%

 

CIRDES lab-colony (2005; this colony is now also established at Seibersdorf)7

(0/57) 0.0%

 

Senegal (Diacksao Peul and Pout, 2009)

(1/188) 0.5%

 

Guinea (Kansaba, Mini Pontda, Kindoya and Ghada Oundou, 2009)

(0/180) 0.0%

 

Guinea (Alahine, 2009)

(0/29) 0.0%

 

Guinea (Boureya Kolonko, 2009)

(0/36) 0.0%

 

Guinea (Fefe, 2009)

(0/29) 0.0%

 

Guinea (Kansaba, 2009)

(0/19) 0.0%

 

Guinea (Kindoya, 2009)

(1/12) 8.3%

 

Guinea (Lemonako, 2009)

(0/30) 0.0%

 

Guinea (Togoue, 2009)

(0/32) 0.0%

G. brevipalpis

Seibersdorf lab-colony (1995)8

(14/34) 41.2%

 

South Africa (Zululand, 1995)

(1/50) 2.0%

G. f. fuscipes

Seibersdorf lab-colony (1995)9

(0/36) 0.0%

 

Uganda (Buvuma island, 1994)

(0/53) 0.0%

G. m. centralis

Yale lab-colony (2008; this colony no longer exists at Yale)10

(3/3) 100.0%

G. tachinoides

Seibersdorf lab-colony (1995; this colony no longer exists at Seibersdorf)11

(0/7) 0.0%

  1. Numbers in parentheses indicate the Wolbachia positive individuals/total individuals analyzed from each population.
  2. 1KARI-TRC is located in Nairobi, Kenya and its laboratory colony was established through Bristol lab (the start-up flies of Bristol lab were collected in Zimbabwe).
  3. 2The Yale lab-colony was also established through Bristol lab.
  4. 3The Antwerp lab-colony was established in its present form in 1993. Its start-up flies were originally collected in Kariba (Zimbabwe) in 1967 and Handemi (Tanzania) in 1973 which were pooled in 1978 after a series of enrichments from flies of Bristol, University of Alberta (Canada) and IAEA lab-colonies.
  5. 4The Bratislava lab-colony was established from a colony in Seibersdorf, which itself came from Zimbabwe via Bristol (same as 2 above).
  6. 5The Seibersdorf lab-colony start-up flies were collected in Tororo, Uganda in 1975.
  7. 6The Seibersdorf lab-colony start-up flies were collected in Nigeria. This colony was transferred to CIRAD, Montpellier, France in 2009.
  8. 7The CIRDES lab-colony start-up flies were collected in Burkina-Faso in early 1990s.
  9. 8The Seibersdorf lab-colony start-up flies were collected in Shimba Hills, Kenya. This colony was transferred to Onderstepoort, South Africa in 2009.
  10. 9The Seibersdorf lab-colony was established from Central African Republic in 1986. This colony was transferred to Bratislava, Slovakia in 2009.
  11. 10The Yale lab-colony was established through Bristol lab.
  12. 11The Seibersdorf lab-colony was established through CIRDES lab, which still has the colony.
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