Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

Experimental replacement of an obligate insect symbiont

(2015) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Tiniest Tiny Genomes

(2014) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Aphid gene of bacterial origin encodes a protein transported to an obligate endosymbiont

(2014) Atsushi Nakabachi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Versatile roles of the chaperonin GroEL in microorganism-insect interactions

(2014) Maria Kupper et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Walczuchella monophlebidarum” the Flavobacterial Endosymbiont of Llaveia axin axin (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Monophlebidae)

(2014) Tania Rosas-Pérez et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Small but Powerful, the Primary Endosymbiont of Moss Bugs, Candidatus Evansia muelleri, Holds a Reduced Genome with Large Biosynthetic Capabilities

(2014) Diego Santos-Garcia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2014) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ISME Journal

Parallel Histories of Horizontal Gene Transfer Facilitated Extreme Reduction of Endosymbiont Genomes in Sap-Feeding Insects

(2014) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Selective propagation of functional mitochondrial DNA during oogenesis restricts the transmission of a deleterious mitochondrial variant

(2014) Jahda H Hill et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Natural selection and infectious disease in human populations

(2014) Elinor K. Karlsson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Intrasperm vertical symbiont transmission

(2014) K. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Differential Genome Evolution Between Companion Symbionts in an Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis

(2014) G. M. Bennett et al.   mBio

The earthworm—Verminephrobacter symbiosis: an emerging experimental system to study extracellular symbiosis

(2014) Marie B. Lund et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative analysis of genome sequences from four strains of the Buchnera aphidicola Mp endosymbion of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae

(2013) Zhijie Jiang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

Defensive Bacteriome Symbiont with a Drastically Reduced Genome

(2013) Atsushi Nakabachi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genomic signatures of obligate host dependence in the luminous bacterial symbiont of a vertebrate

(2013) Tory A. Hendry et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity of bacterial endosymbionts and bacteria-host co-evolution in Gondwanan relict moss bugs (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae)

(2013) Stefan Martin Kuechler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2013) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Sequence Context of Indel Mutations and Their Effect on Protein Evolution in a Bacterial Endosymbiont

(2013) Laura E. Williams et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Gene expression analysis of the endosymbiont-bearing midgut tissue during ontogeny of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2013) Carolin Ratzka et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Can't Take the Heat: High Temperature Depletes Bacterial Endosymbionts of Ants

(2013) Yongliang Fan et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Genetic incompatibilities are widespread within species

(2013) Russell B. Corbett-Detig et al.   NATURE

Aphid amino acid transporter regulates glutamine supply to intracellular bacterial symbionts

(2013) D. R. G. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Evolution: Mitochondrial Burden on Male Health

(2012) Steven A. Frank   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation

(2012) Jennifer J Wernegreen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

The nutrient supplying capabilities ofUzinura, an endosymbiont of armoured scale insects

(2012) Zakee L. Sabree et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Purifying Selection and Molecular Adaptation in the Genome of Verminephrobacter, the Heritable Symbiotic Bacteria of Earthworms

(2012) Kasper U. Kjeldsen et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Evolutionary relationships of flavobacterial and enterobacterial endosymbionts with their scale insect hosts (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)

(2012) M. Rosenblueth et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genome Reduction and Co-evolution between the Primary and Secondary Bacterial Symbionts of Psyllids

(2012) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic insights into the marine sponge microbiome

(2012) Ute Hentschel et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genome streamlining and chemical defense in a coral reef symbiosis

(2012) J. C. Kwan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Aphids evolved novel secreted proteins for symbiosis with bacterial endosymbiont

(2012) S. Shigenobu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insight into the Transmission Biology and Species-Specific Functional Capabilities of Tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) Obligate Symbiont Wigglesworthia

(2012) R. V. M. Rio et al.   mBio

Comparative Genomics Suggests an Independent Origin of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Cardinium hertigii

(2012) Thomas Penz et al.   PLoS Genetics

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

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

Reductive Evolution of Bacterial Genome in Insect Gut Environment

(2011) Naruo Nikoh et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

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

Large-Scale Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics of the Pea aphid-BuchneraSymbiosis

(2011) Anton Poliakov et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Reduced Selective Constraint in Endosymbionts: Elevation in Radical Amino Acid Replacements Occurs Genome-Wide

(2011) Jennifer J. Wernegreen   PLoS One

Aphid genome expression reveals host-symbiont cooperation in the production of amino acids

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   PLoS Genetics

Chromosome Stability and Gene Loss in Cockroach Endosymbionts

(2010) Z. L. Sabree et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Dynamics of a Recurrent Buchnera Mutation That Affects Thermal Tolerance of Pea Aphid Hosts

(2010) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   GENETICS

How the insect immune system interacts with an obligate symbiotic bacterium

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

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010)   PLOS BIOLOGY

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Evolution and Diversity of Facultative Symbionts from the Aphid Subfamily Lachninae

(2009) G. R. Burke et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

"Candidatus Curculioniphilus buchneri," a Novel Clade of Bacterial Endocellular Symbionts from Weevils of the Genus Curculio

(2009) H. Toju et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pea Aphid as both Host and Vector for the Phytopathogenic Bacterium Pseudomonas syringae

(2009) J. Stavrinides et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The consequences of genetic drift for bacterial genome complexity

(2009) C.-H. Kuo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Effects of facultative symbionts and heat stress on the metabolome of pea aphids

(2009) Gaelen Burke et al.   ISME Journal

Interactions between mutualist Wigglesworthia and tsetse peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP-LB) influence trypanosome transmission

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

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

The Dynamics and Time Scale of Ongoing Genomic Erosion in Symbiotic Bacteria

(2009) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Verminephrobacter eiseniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a nephridial symbiont of the earthworm Eisenia foetida (Savigny)

(2008) N. Pinel et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Lateral Symbiont Acquisition in a Maternally Transmitted Chemosynthetic Clam Endosymbiosis

(2008) F. J. Stewart et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY