An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects

Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

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Symbiont-Supplemented Maternal Investment Underpinning Host’s Ecological Adaptation

(2014) Nahomi Kaiwa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Partner associations across sympatric broad-headed bug species and their environmentally acquired bacterial symbionts

(2014) J. R. Garcia et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Interaction between Workers during a Short Time Window Is Required for Bacterial Symbiont Transmission in Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants

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Vitamin supplementation by gut symbionts ensures metabolic homeostasis in an insect host

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The Epidemiology and Evolution of Symbionts with Mixed-Mode Transmission

(2013) Dieter Ebert   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Efficient Colonization of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris by an Environmentally Transmitted Burkholderia Symbiont

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Bacterial Cell Wall Synthesis Gene uppP Is Required for Burkholderia Colonization of the Stinkbug Gut

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Specificity and stability of the Acromyrmex -Pseudonocardia symbiosis

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Gene Expression in Gut Symbiotic Organ of Stinkbug Affected by Extracellular Bacterial Symbiont

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Polyester synthesis genes associated with stress resistance are involved in an insect-bacterium symbiosis

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Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

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Actinobacteria as essential symbionts in firebugs and cotton stainers (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

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Symbionts as Major Modulators of Insect Health: Lactic Acid Bacteria and Honeybees

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Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

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

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Specific Developmental Window for Establishment of an Insect-Microbe Gut Symbiosis

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Reductive Evolution of Bacterial Genome in Insect Gut Environment

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

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated

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Diversity and Genomes of Uncultured Microbial Symbionts in the Termite Gut

(2010) Yuichi HONGOH   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

An ancient but promiscuous host–symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

(2010) VINCENT G. MARTINSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

(2010) Johannes Kroiss et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Localization and transmission route of Coriobacterium glomerans, the endosymbiont of pyrrhocorid bugs

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The consequences of genetic drift for bacterial genome complexity

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

Conjugation genes are common throughout the genus Rickettsia and are transmitted horizontally

(2009) L. A. Weinert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Phylogenetic Placement of Pentatomid Stink Bug Gut Symbionts

(2008) Simone S. Prado et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Analysis of milk gland structure and function in Glossina morsitans: Milk protein production, symbiont populations and fecundity

(2008) Geoffrey M. Attardo et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis

(2008) Nicole Dubilier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont acquisition alters behaviour of stinkbug nymphs

(2007) T. Hosokawa et al.   Biology Letters