University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2023
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In this thesis, I investigated the host shift event and patterns of the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia. I examined the molecular diversity and distribution of Wolbachia among arthropod communities of different terrestrial habitats, as soil and selected plants (Daucus carota, Medicago sativa, Salix caprea, Urtica dioica) in the area of Göttingen in central Germany. To increase the knowledge of Wolbachia diversity, genomics, and horizontal transmission, a main drive for host shifts, we screened freshly collected arthropods from different habitats. Within the arthropod community of host pla...