The Bark Beetle Holobiont: Why Microbes Matter

Mountain Pine Beetles Colonizing Historical and Naïve Host Trees Are Associated with a Bacterial Community Highly Enriched in Genes Contributing to Terpene Metabolism

(2013) Aaron S. Adams et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Arthropods and inherited bacteria: from counting the symbionts to understanding how symbionts count

(2013) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Production of Bioactive Volatiles by Different Burkholderia ambifaria Strains

(2013) Ulrike Groenhagen et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

The role of temperature variability in stabilizing the mountain pine beetle–fungus mutualism

(2013) A.L. Addison et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Red Turpentine Beetle: Innocuous Native Becomes Invasive Tree Killer in China

(2012) Jianghua Sun et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Symbiont recruitment versus ant-symbiont co-evolution in the attine ant–microbe symbiosis

(2012) Ulrich G Mueller   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation

(2012) Jennifer J Wernegreen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological interactions drive evolutionary loss of traits

(2012) Jacintha Ellers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Legacy of Attack: Implications of High Phloem Resin Monoterpene Levels in Lodgepole Pines Following Mass Attack by Mountain Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins

(2012) E. L. Clark et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Impact of Phloem Nutrients on Overwintering Mountain Pine Beetles and Their Fungal Symbionts

(2012) Devin W. Goodsman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecological effects on gut bacterial communities in wild bumblebee colonies

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Bacteria fromIps sexdentatus(Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and their biocontrol potential

(2012) Ali Sevim et al.   JOURNAL OF BASIC MICROBIOLOGY

Gut-Associated Bacteria Throughout the Life Cycle of the Bark Beetle Dendroctonus rhizophagus Thomas and Bright (Curculionidae: Scolytinae) and Their Cellulolytic Activities

(2012) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs,Pyrrhocoris apterus(Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Characterization of fungal communities associated with the bark beetle Ips typographus varies depending on detection method, location, and beetle population levels

(2012) Luana Giordano et al.   MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS

A specialized ABC efflux transporter GcABC-G1 confers monoterpene resistance toGrosmannia clavigera, a bark beetle-associated fungal pathogen of pine trees

(2012) Ye Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Host Plant Induced Variation in Gut Bacteria of Helicoverpa armigera

(2012) Natarajan Gayatri Priya et al.   PLoS One

Laccase detoxification mediates the nutritional alliance between leaf-cutting ants and fungus-garden symbionts

(2012) H. H. De Fine Licht et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

(2012) Y. Kikuchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Symbiotic View of Life: We Have Never Been Individuals

(2012) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Evidence for Cascades of Perturbation and Adaptation in the Metabolic Genes of Higher Termite Gut Symbionts

(2012) X. Zhang et al.   mBio

Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants of Bark Beetle —Fungus Symbioses

(2012) Diana L. Six   Insects

Fungal associates of the lodgepole pine beetle, Dendroctonus murrayanae

(2011) Diana L. Six et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Refining the Roots of the Beewolf-Streptomyces Symbiosis: Antennal Symbionts in the Rare Genus Philanthinus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

(2011) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Shrinkage and Loss of Nutrient-Providing Potential in the Obligate Symbiont of the Primitive Termite Mastotermes darwiniensis

(2011) Zakee L. Sabree et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Potential for range expansion of mountain pine beetle into the boreal forest of North America

(2011) L. Safranyik et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE AND SECONDARY SYMBIONTS IN HOST-ASSOCIATED POPULATIONS OF THE PEA APHID COMPLEX

(2011) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

Spatial Community Structure of Mountain Pine Beetle Fungal Symbionts Across a Latitudinal Gradient

(2011) Amanda D. Roe et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Population structure and migration pattern of a conifer pathogen,Grosmannia clavigera, as influenced by its symbiont, the mountain pine beetle

(2011) CLEMENT K. M. TSUI et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Geosmithia morbida sp. nov., a new phytopathogenic species living in symbiosis with the walnut twig beetle (Pityophthorus juglandis) on Juglans in USA

(2011) Miroslav Kolařík et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Reciprocal interactions between the bark beetle-associated yeast Ogataea pini and host plant phytochemistry

(2011) Thomas S. Davis et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Genome and transcriptome analyses of the mountain pine beetle-fungal symbiont Grosmannia clavigera, a lodgepole pine pathogen

(2011) S. DiGuistini et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anthropogenic effects on interaction outcomes: examples from insect-microbial symbioses in forest and savanna ecosystems

(2011) Diana L. Six et al.   SYMBIOSIS

The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Comparative Dating of Attine Ant and Lepiotaceous Cultivar Phylogenies Reveals Coevolutionary Synchrony and Discord

(2010) Alexander S. Mikheyev et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The Role of Phytopathogenicity in Bark Beetle–Fungus Symbioses: A Challenge to the Classic Paradigm

(2010) Diana L. Six et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

(2010) Jörg Barke et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Whitebark pine vulnerability to climate-driven mountain pine beetle disturbance in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

(2010) Jesse A. Logan et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nitrogen Concentration in Mountain Pine Beetle Larvae Reflects Nitrogen Status of the Tree Host and Two Fungal Associates

(2010) Stephen P. Cook et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Geographic Variation in Bacterial Communities Associated With the Red Turpentine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

(2010) Aaron S. Adams et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Interactions Between the Yeast Ogataea pini and Filamentous Fungi Associated with the Western Pine Beetle

(2010) Thomas S. Davis et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Comparative phylogeography, genetic differentiation and contrasting reproductive modes in three fungal symbionts of a multipartite bark beetle symbiosis

(2010) AMANDA D. ROE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Nutrient provisioning facilitates homeostasis between tsetse fly (Diptera: Glossinidae) symbionts

(2010) A. K. Snyder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insect endosymbionts: manipulators of insect herbivore trophic interactions?

(2010) Emily L. Clark et al.   PROTOPLASMA

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

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

Gut-associated yeast in bark beetles of the genus Dendroctonus Erichson (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2009) FLOR N. RIVERA et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Detection of host habitat by parasitoids using cues associated with mycangial fungi of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae

(2009) A.S. Adams et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Effects of symbiotic bacteria and tree chemistry on the growth and reproduction of bark beetle fungal symbionts

(2009) A.S. Adams et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Mountain pine beetle-associated blue-stain fungi in lodgepole × jack pine hybrids near Grande Prairie, Alberta (Canada)

(2009) A. V. Rice et al.   FOREST PATHOLOGY

Bacterial Community and Nitrogen Fixation in the Red Turpentine Beetle, Dendroctonus valens LeConte (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2009) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Free-living fungal symbionts (Lepiotaceae) of fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae)

(2009) Tanya L. Vo et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Climate change and mutualism

(2009) Diana L. Six   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis

(2009) S. Haeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont

(2009) Z. L. Sabree et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Multipartite Symbioses Among Fungi, Mites, Nematodes, and the Spruce Beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis

(2008) Yasmin J. Cardoza et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Parasitoids and Dipteran Predators Exploit Volatiles from Microbial Symbionts to Locate Bark Beetles

(2008) Celia K. Boone et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

Mountain pine beetle-associated blue-stain fungi are differentially adapted to boreal temperatures

(2008) A. V. Rice et al.   FOREST PATHOLOGY

Competition and Coexistence In a Multi-partner Mutualism: Interactions Between two Fungal Symbionts of the Mountain Pine Beetle In Beetle-attacked Trees

(2008) K. P. Bleiker et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

In Vitro Interactions Between Yeasts and Bacteria and the Fungal Symbionts of the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)

(2008) Aaron S. Adams et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Fine-scale cospeciation between Brachycaudus and Buchnera aphidicola: bacterial genome helps define species and evolutionary relationships in aphids

(2008) E. Jousselin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES