Swapping symbionts in spittlebugs: evolutionary replacement of a reduced genome symbiont

Phylogenetic analysis of symbionts in feather-feeding lice of the genus Columbicola: evidence for repeated symbiont replacements

(2013) Wendy A Smith et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary replacement of obligate symbionts in an ancient and diverse insect lineage

(2013) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Origins and Evolution of Ancient Dual Symbioses in a Phloem-Feeding Insect

(2013) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Diversification of endosymbiosis: replacements, co-speciation and promiscuity of bacteriocyte symbionts in weevils

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative transcriptomics of the bacteriome and the spermalege of the bedbug Cimex lectularius (Hemiptera: Cimicidae)

(2012) Minoru Moriyama et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Two ancient bacterial endosymbionts have coevolved with the planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea)

(2012) Julie M Urban et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Co-evolution and symbiont replacement shaped the symbiosis between adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) and their bacterial symbionts

(2012) Elena R. Toenshoff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cellular mechanism for selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte-embryo interface

(2012) R. Koga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

(2012) P. Engel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Novel Human-Infection-Derived Bacterium Provides Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Mutualistic Insect–Bacterial Symbioses

(2012) Adam L. Clayton et al.   PLoS Genetics

The phylogeny of Sodalis-like symbionts as reconstructed using surface-encoding loci

(2011) Anna K. Snyder et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Massive Genomic Decay in Serratia symbiotica, a Recently Evolved Symbiont of Aphids

(2011) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mobile genetic element proliferation and gene inactivation impact over the genome structure and metabolic capabilities of Sodalis glossinidius, the secondary endosymbiont of tsetse flies

(2010) Eugeni Belda et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Family-level relationships of the spittlebugs and froghoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha: Cercopoidea)

(2010) JASON R. CRYAN et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Convergent evolution of metabolic roles in bacterial co-symbionts of insects

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

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Long-Term Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Endosymbiosis in Curculionoidea: Additional Evidence of Symbiont Replacement in the Dryophthoridae Family

(2008) Cyrille Conord et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION