Dr Thomas Ant

  • Research Associate (Virology)

Publications

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Number of items: 17.

2025

Parry, E. R.S. et al. (2025) Imaging the lifecycle of Microsporidia sp. MB in Anopheles coluzzii from western Burkina Faso reveals octosporogony. mSphere, (doi: 10.1128/msphere.00851-24) (PMID:40401914) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Mancini, Maria Vittoria, Murdochy, Shivan M., Bilgo, Etienne, Ant, Thomas H., Gingell, Daniel, Gnambani, Edounou Jacques, Failloux, Anna-Bella, Diabate, Abdoulaye and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2024) Wolbachia strain wAlbB shows favourable characteristics for dengue control use in Aedes aegypti from Burkina Faso. Environmental Microbiology, 26(3), e16588. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16588) (PMID:38450576)

McNamara, Cameron J., Ant, Thomas J., Harvey-Samuel, Tim, White-Cooper, Helen, Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Alphey, Luke and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2024) Transgenic expression of cif genes from Wolbachia strain wAlbB recapitulates cytoplasmic incompatibility in Aedes aegypti. Nature Communications, 15, 869. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45238-7) (PMID:38287029) (PMCID:PMC10825118)

2023

Rainey, Stephanie M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-5495, Geoghegan, Vincent, Lefteri, Daniella A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-4254, Ant, Thomas H., Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, McNamara, Cameron J., Kamel, Wael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7625-2648, de Laurent, Zaydah Rolande, Castello, Alfredo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1499-4662 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2023) Differences in proteome perturbations caused by the Wolbachia strain wAu suggest multiple mechanisms of Wolbachia-mediated antiviral activity. Scientific Reports, 13, 11737. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38127-4) (PMID:37474590) (PMCID:PMC10359319)

Ant, Thomas H., Mancini, Maria Vittoria, McNamara, Cameron J., Rainey, Stephanie M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-5495 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2023) Wolbachia-virus interactions and arbovirus control through population replacement in mosquitoes. Pathogens and Global Health, 117(3), pp. 245-258. (doi: 10.1080/20477724.2022.2117939) (PMID:36205550) (PMCID:PMC10081064)

Mancini, M. V. et al. (2023) Evaluation of an engineered Zika virus-like particle vaccine candidate in a mosquito-mouse transmission model. mSphere, 8(2), e00564-22. (doi: 10.1128/msphere.00564-22) (PMID:36840596) (PMCID:PMC10117074)

2022

Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Ross, Perran A., Gu, Xinyue, Ant, Thomas H., Murdochy, Shivan M., Tong, Lily, da Silva Filipe, Ana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9442-2903, Hoffmann, Ary A. and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2022) Genomic and phenotypic comparisons reveal distinct variants of Wolbachia strain wAlbB. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(22), e0141222. (doi: 10.1128/aem.01412-22) (PMID:36318064) (PMCID:PMC9680635)

Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Ant, Thomas H., Murdochy, Shivan M., Tong, Lily, da Silva Filipe, Ana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9442-2903 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2022) Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of Wolbachia strain wAlbA reveals Wolbachia-associated plasmids are common. PLoS Genetics, 18(9), e1010406. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010406) (PMID:36121852) (PMCID:PMC9560607)

2021

Ahmad, Noor Afizah, Mancini, Maria-Vittoria, Ant, Thomas H., Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Kamarul, Ghazali M.R., Nazni, Wasi A., Hoffmann, Ary A. and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2021) Wolbachia strain wAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population of Aedes aegypti. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1818), 20190809. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0809) (PMID:33357050) (PMCID:PMC7776933)

Mancini, Maria Vittoria, Ant, Thomas H., Herd, Christie S., Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Murdochy, Shivan M., Gingell, Daniel D., Mararo, Enoch, Johnson, Paul C. D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6663-7520 and Sinkins, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2021) High temperature cycles result in maternal transmission and dengue infection differences between Wolbachia strains in Aedes aegypti. mBio, 12(6), e00250-21. (doi: 10.1128/mBio.00250-21) (PMCID:PMC8576525)

2020

Ant, Thomas H., Mancini, Maria-Vittoria, Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2020) Enhancement of Aedes aegypti susceptibility to dengue by Wolbachia is not supported. Nature Communications, 11, 6111. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19830-6) (PMID:33257651) (PMCID:PMC7705685)

Chouin‐Carneiro, T., Ant, T.H., Herd, C., Louis, F., Failloux, A.B. and Sinkins, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2020) Wolbachia strain wAlbA blocks Zika virus transmission in Aedes aegypti. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 34(1), pp. 116-119. (doi: 10.1111/mve.12384) (PMID:31120156) (PMCID:PMC7027442)

Ant, T.H., Herd, C., Louis, F., Failloux, A.B. and Sinkins, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2020) Wolbachia transinfections in Culex quinquefasciatus generate cytoplasmic incompatibility. Insect Molecular Biology, 29(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1111/imb.12604) (PMID:31194893) (PMCID:PMC7027843)

2019

Nazni, W. A. et al. (2019) Establishment of Wolbachia strain wAlbB in Malaysian populations of Aedes aegypti for dengue control. Current Biology, 29(24), 4241-4248.e5. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.007) (PMID:31761702) (PMCID:PMC6926472)

2018

Ant, Thomas H., Herd, Christie S., Geoghegan, Vincent, Hoffmann, Ary A. and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2018) The Wolbachia strain wAu provides highly efficient virus transmission blocking in Aedes aegypti. PLoS Pathogens, 14(1), e1006815. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006815) (PMID:29370307) (PMCID:PMC5784998)

2017

Geoghegan, Vincent, Stainton, Kirsty, Rainey, Stephanie M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-5495, Ant, Thomas H., Dowle, Adam A., Larson, Tony, Hester, Svenja, Charles, Philip D., Thomas, Benjamin and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2017) Perturbed cholesterol and vesicular trafficking associated with dengue blocking in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti cells. Nature Communications, 8, 526. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00610-8) (PMID:28904344) (PMCID:PMC5597582)

Harvey-Samuel, Tim, Ant, Thomas and Alphey, Luke (2017) Towards the genetic control of invasive species. Biological Invasions, 19(6), pp. 1683-1703. (doi: 10.1007/s10530-017-1384-6)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 12:08:13 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 17.

Articles

Parry, E. R.S. et al. (2025) Imaging the lifecycle of Microsporidia sp. MB in Anopheles coluzzii from western Burkina Faso reveals octosporogony. mSphere, (doi: 10.1128/msphere.00851-24) (PMID:40401914) (Early Online Publication)

Mancini, Maria Vittoria, Murdochy, Shivan M., Bilgo, Etienne, Ant, Thomas H., Gingell, Daniel, Gnambani, Edounou Jacques, Failloux, Anna-Bella, Diabate, Abdoulaye and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2024) Wolbachia strain wAlbB shows favourable characteristics for dengue control use in Aedes aegypti from Burkina Faso. Environmental Microbiology, 26(3), e16588. (doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16588) (PMID:38450576)

McNamara, Cameron J., Ant, Thomas J., Harvey-Samuel, Tim, White-Cooper, Helen, Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Alphey, Luke and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2024) Transgenic expression of cif genes from Wolbachia strain wAlbB recapitulates cytoplasmic incompatibility in Aedes aegypti. Nature Communications, 15, 869. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-45238-7) (PMID:38287029) (PMCID:PMC10825118)

Rainey, Stephanie M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-5495, Geoghegan, Vincent, Lefteri, Daniella A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9985-4254, Ant, Thomas H., Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, McNamara, Cameron J., Kamel, Wael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7625-2648, de Laurent, Zaydah Rolande, Castello, Alfredo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1499-4662 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2023) Differences in proteome perturbations caused by the Wolbachia strain wAu suggest multiple mechanisms of Wolbachia-mediated antiviral activity. Scientific Reports, 13, 11737. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-38127-4) (PMID:37474590) (PMCID:PMC10359319)

Ant, Thomas H., Mancini, Maria Vittoria, McNamara, Cameron J., Rainey, Stephanie M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-5495 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2023) Wolbachia-virus interactions and arbovirus control through population replacement in mosquitoes. Pathogens and Global Health, 117(3), pp. 245-258. (doi: 10.1080/20477724.2022.2117939) (PMID:36205550) (PMCID:PMC10081064)

Mancini, M. V. et al. (2023) Evaluation of an engineered Zika virus-like particle vaccine candidate in a mosquito-mouse transmission model. mSphere, 8(2), e00564-22. (doi: 10.1128/msphere.00564-22) (PMID:36840596) (PMCID:PMC10117074)

Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Ross, Perran A., Gu, Xinyue, Ant, Thomas H., Murdochy, Shivan M., Tong, Lily, da Silva Filipe, Ana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9442-2903, Hoffmann, Ary A. and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2022) Genomic and phenotypic comparisons reveal distinct variants of Wolbachia strain wAlbB. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 88(22), e0141222. (doi: 10.1128/aem.01412-22) (PMID:36318064) (PMCID:PMC9680635)

Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Ant, Thomas H., Murdochy, Shivan M., Tong, Lily, da Silva Filipe, Ana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9442-2903 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2022) Genome sequencing and comparative analysis of Wolbachia strain wAlbA reveals Wolbachia-associated plasmids are common. PLoS Genetics, 18(9), e1010406. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010406) (PMID:36121852) (PMCID:PMC9560607)

Ahmad, Noor Afizah, Mancini, Maria-Vittoria, Ant, Thomas H., Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Kamarul, Ghazali M.R., Nazni, Wasi A., Hoffmann, Ary A. and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2021) Wolbachia strain wAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population of Aedes aegypti. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1818), 20190809. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0809) (PMID:33357050) (PMCID:PMC7776933)

Mancini, Maria Vittoria, Ant, Thomas H., Herd, Christie S., Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921, Murdochy, Shivan M., Gingell, Daniel D., Mararo, Enoch, Johnson, Paul C. D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6663-7520 and Sinkins, Steven ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2021) High temperature cycles result in maternal transmission and dengue infection differences between Wolbachia strains in Aedes aegypti. mBio, 12(6), e00250-21. (doi: 10.1128/mBio.00250-21) (PMCID:PMC8576525)

Ant, Thomas H., Mancini, Maria-Vittoria, Martinez, Julien ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-2921 and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2020) Enhancement of Aedes aegypti susceptibility to dengue by Wolbachia is not supported. Nature Communications, 11, 6111. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-19830-6) (PMID:33257651) (PMCID:PMC7705685)

Chouin‐Carneiro, T., Ant, T.H., Herd, C., Louis, F., Failloux, A.B. and Sinkins, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2020) Wolbachia strain wAlbA blocks Zika virus transmission in Aedes aegypti. Medical and Veterinary Entomology, 34(1), pp. 116-119. (doi: 10.1111/mve.12384) (PMID:31120156) (PMCID:PMC7027442)

Ant, T.H., Herd, C., Louis, F., Failloux, A.B. and Sinkins, S.P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2020) Wolbachia transinfections in Culex quinquefasciatus generate cytoplasmic incompatibility. Insect Molecular Biology, 29(1), pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1111/imb.12604) (PMID:31194893) (PMCID:PMC7027843)

Nazni, W. A. et al. (2019) Establishment of Wolbachia strain wAlbB in Malaysian populations of Aedes aegypti for dengue control. Current Biology, 29(24), 4241-4248.e5. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.007) (PMID:31761702) (PMCID:PMC6926472)

Ant, Thomas H., Herd, Christie S., Geoghegan, Vincent, Hoffmann, Ary A. and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2018) The Wolbachia strain wAu provides highly efficient virus transmission blocking in Aedes aegypti. PLoS Pathogens, 14(1), e1006815. (doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006815) (PMID:29370307) (PMCID:PMC5784998)

Geoghegan, Vincent, Stainton, Kirsty, Rainey, Stephanie M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-5495, Ant, Thomas H., Dowle, Adam A., Larson, Tony, Hester, Svenja, Charles, Philip D., Thomas, Benjamin and Sinkins, Steven P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2678-1832 (2017) Perturbed cholesterol and vesicular trafficking associated with dengue blocking in Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti cells. Nature Communications, 8, 526. (doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-00610-8) (PMID:28904344) (PMCID:PMC5597582)

Harvey-Samuel, Tim, Ant, Thomas and Alphey, Luke (2017) Towards the genetic control of invasive species. Biological Invasions, 19(6), pp. 1683-1703. (doi: 10.1007/s10530-017-1384-6)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 12:08:13 2025 BST.

Supervision

Research datasets

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Number of items: 4.

2024

Mancini, M. V., Murdochy, S. M., Bilgo, E., Ant, T. H., Gingell, D., Edounou, J. G., Failloux, A.-B., Diabate, A. and Sinkins, S. (2024) Wolbachia strain wAlbB shows favourable characteristics for dengue control use in Aedes aegypti from Burkina Faso. [Data Collection]

2023

Rainey, S., Geoghegan, V., Lefteri, D. , Ant, T., Martinez, J. , McNamara, C., Kamel, W. , de Laurent, Z., Castello, A. and Sinkins, S. (2023) Differences in proteome perturbations caused by the Wolbachia strain wAu suggest multiple mechanisms of Wolbachia-mediated antiviral activity. [Data Collection]

2020

Ahmad, N. A., Mancini, M. V., Ant, T., Martinez, J. , Kamarul, G. M. R., Nazni, W. A., Hoffmann, A. A. and Sinkins, S. (2020) Wolbachia strain wAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population of Aedes aegypti. [Data Collection]

Mancini, M. V., Herd, C. S., Ant, T., Murdochy, S. and Sinkins, S. (2020) Wolbachia strain wAu efficiently blocks arbovirus transmission in Aedes albopictus. [Data Collection] (Unpublished)

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 11:36:57 2025 BST.