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Background   Wolbachia  are obligate endosymbiotic bacteria maternally transmitted through the egg cytoplasm that are responsible for several reproductive disorders in their insect hosts, such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in infected mosquitoes. Species in the  Culex pipiens  complex display an unusually high number of  Wolbachia -induced crossing types, and based on present data, only the  w Pip strain is present.    Results  The sequencing of the  w Pip strain of  Wolbachia  revealed the presence of 60 ankyrin repeat domain (ANK) encoding genes and expression studies of these genes were carried out in adult mosquitoes. One of these ANK genes,  pk 2, is shown to be part of an operon of three prophage-associated genes with sex-specific expression, and is present in two identical copies in the genome. Another homolog of  pk 2 is also present that is differentially expressed in different  Cx. pipiens  group strains. A further two ANK genes showed sex-specific regulation in  w Pip-infected  Cx. pipiens  group adults.    Conclusion  The high number, variability and differential expression of ANK genes in  w Pip suggest an important role in  Wolbachia  biology, and the gene family provides both markers and promising candidates for the study of reproductive manipulation.

Ankyrin repeat domain-encoding genes in the wPip strain of Wolbachia from the Culex pipiens group