Detection and decay rates of prey and prey symbionts in the gut of a predator through metagenomics

Aphid facultative symbionts reduce survival of the predatory lady beetle Hippodamia convergens

(2014) Kelly Costopoulos et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

The detectability half-life in arthropod predator-prey research: what it is, why we need it, how to measure it, and how to use it

(2013) Matthew H. Greenstone et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

(2013) Jacob A. Russell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A pragmatic approach to the analysis of diets of generalist predators: the use of next-generation sequencing with no blocking probes

(2013) J. Piñol et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Next Generation Sequencing of Fecal DNA Reveals the Dietary Diversity of the Widespread Insectivorous Predator Daubenton’s Bat (Myotis daubentonii) in Southwestern Finland

(2013) Eero J. Vesterinen et al.   PLoS One

Invasive Harlequin Ladybird Carries Biological Weapons Against Native Competitors

(2013) A. Vilcinskas et al.   SCIENCE

Assessment of bacterial endosymbiont diversity in Otiorhynchus spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae using a multitag 454 pyrosequencing approach

(2012) Jacqueline Hirsch et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Predation of native coccinellids by the invasive alien Harmonia axyridis (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae): detection in Britain by PCR-based gut analysis

(2012) ALISON P. THOMAS et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Molecular characterization of Russian wheat aphid consumption by spiders in winter wheat

(2012) Lauren M. Kerzicnik et al.   JOURNAL OF ARACHNOLOGY

Draft Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa," an Endosymbiont of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci

(2012) Q. Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Evolution and diversity ofArsenophonusendosymbionts in aphids

(2012) Emmanuelle Jousselin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Carnivore diet analysis based on next-generation sequencing: application to the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in Pakistan

(2012) WASIM SHEHZAD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogenetically informative rearrangements in mitochondrial genomes of Coleoptera, and monophyly of aquatic elateriform beetles (Dryopoidea)

(2012) Martijn J.T.N. Timmermans et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Dfam: a database of repetitive DNA based on profile hidden Markov models

(2012) Travis J. Wheeler et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

RobiNA: a user-friendly, integrated software solution for RNA-Seq-based transcriptomics

(2012) M. Lohse et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Molecular Interrogation of the Feeding Behaviour of Field Captured Individual Insects for Interpretation of Multiple Host Plant Use

(2012) James P. Hereward et al.   PLoS One

Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next-generation sequencing for plant systematics

(2011) Shannon C. K. Straub et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Bacterial Communities of Two Parthenogenetic Aphid Species Cocolonizing Two Host Plants across the Hawaiian Islands

(2011) Ryan T. Jones et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

(2011) R. Schmieder et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencing

(2011) FRANCOIS POMPANON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Facultative Symbiont Infections Affect Aphid Reproduction

(2011) Jean-Christophe Simon et al.   PLoS One

Serratia symbiotica from the Aphid Cinara cedri: A Missing Link from Facultative to Obligate Insect Endosymbiont

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   PLoS Genetics

Pyrosequencing faecal DNA to determine diet of little penguins: is what goes in what comes out?

(2010) Bruce E. Deagle et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Taxon-specific PCR for DNA barcoding arthropod prey in bat faeces

(2010) MATT R. K. ZEALE et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010)   PLOS BIOLOGY

Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

(2009) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Arsenophonus, an emerging clade of intracellular symbionts with a broad host distribution

(2009) Eva Nováková et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Two Species of Symbiotic Bacteria Present in the Soybean Aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

(2009) B. D. Wille et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Detection of Predation Using qPCR: Effect of Prey Quantity, Elapsed Time, Chaser Diet, and Sample Preservation on Detectable Quantity of Prey DNA

(2009) Donald C. Weber et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Analysis of Australian fur seal diet by pyrosequencing prey DNA in faeces

(2009) BRUCE E. DEAGLE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

New perspectives in diet analysis based on DNA barcoding and parallel pyrosequencing: thetrnL approach

(2009) ALICE VALENTINI et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Hamiltonella defensa, genome evolution of protective bacterial endosymbiont from pathogenic ancestors

(2009) P. H. Degnan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tracking aphid predation by lycosid spiders in spring-sown cereals using PCR-based gut-content analysis

(2008) A.-K. Kuusk et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Blocking primers to enhance PCR amplification of rare sequences in mixed samples – a case study on prey DNA in Antarctic krill stomachs

(2008) Hege Vestheim et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

DNA barcoding for ecologists

(2008) Alice Valentini et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION