The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

Proteolytic activity of gut bacteria isolated from the velvet bean caterpillar Anticarsia gemmatalis

(2013) F. M. Pilon et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY

Nitrogen-Fixing and Uricolytic Bacteria Associated with the Gut of Dendroctonus rhizophagus and Dendroctonus valens (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2013) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Carotenoids in unexpected places: Gall midges, lateral gene transfer, and carotenoid biosynthesis in animals

(2013) Cassidy Cobbs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiosis catalyses niche expansion and diversification

(2013) J. B. Joy   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endogenous Plant Cell Wall Digestion: A Key Mechanism in Insect Evolution

(2012) Nancy Calderón-Cortés et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Polyphyly of Gut Symbionts in Stinkbugs of the Family Cydnidae

(2012) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Bacterial Community in the Gut of the Cockroach Shelfordella lateralis Reflects the Close Evolutionary Relatedness of Cockroaches and Termites

(2012) Christine Schauer et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

(2012) Vincent G. Martinson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies

(2012) D. B. Sloan et al.   Biology Letters

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

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

Combining proteomics and transcriptome sequencing to identify active plant-cell-wall-degrading enzymes in a leaf beetle

(2012) Roy Kirsch et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2012) Ulrich G Mueller   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Expressional and functional variation of horizontally acquired cellulases in the nematode Pristionchus pacificus

(2012) Lisa N. Schuster et al.   GENE

Multiple ancient horizontal gene transfers and duplications in lepidopteran species

(2012) B. F. Sun et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria

(2012) W. K. Kwong et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenomic and metaproteomic insights into bacterial communities in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens

(2012) Frank O Aylward et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

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

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

(2012) D. R. Colman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genome scans reveal candidate regions involved in the adaptation to host plant in the pea aphid complex

(2012) J. Jaquiéry et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Manipulation of Plant Defense Responses by the Tomato Psyllid (Bactericerca cockerelli) and Its Associated Endosymbiont Candidatus Liberibacter Psyllaurous

(2012) Clare L. Casteel et al.   PLoS One

Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees

(2012) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PLoS One

Complexity and Variability of Gut Commensal Microbiota in Polyphagous Lepidopteran Larvae

(2012) Xiaoshu Tang et al.   PLoS One

Contribution of Lateral Gene Transfers to the Genome Composition and Parasitic Ability of Root-Knot Nematodes

(2012) Julien Paganini et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive horizontal transfer of a bacterial gene to an invasive insect pest of coffee

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

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

Bacteria of the human gut microbiome catabolize red seaweed glycans with carbohydrate-active enzyme updates from extrinsic microbes

(2012) J.-H. Hehemann 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

The central role of the host cell in symbiotic nitrogen metabolism

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

Insect symbionts as hidden players in insect–plant interactions

(2012) Enric Frago et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological and Evolutionary Determinants of Bark Beetle —Fungus Symbioses

(2012) Diana L. Six   Insects

The Evolutionary Innovation of Nutritional Symbioses in Leaf-Cutter Ants

(2012) Frank O. Aylward et al.   Insects

New Clues about the Evolutionary History of Metabolic Losses in Bacterial Endosymbionts, Provided by the Genome of Buchnera aphidicola from the Aphid Cinara tujafilina

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biodiversity of Active and Inactive Bacteria in the Gut Flora of Wood-Feeding Huhu Beetle Larvae (Prionoplus reticularis)

(2011) Nicola M. Reid et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontally transferred fungal carotenoid genes in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae

(2011) B. Altincicek et al.   Biology Letters

Leaf-cutting ant fungi produce cell wall degrading pectinase complexes reminiscent of phytopathogenic fungi

(2011) Morten Schiøtt et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Pathogen-origin horizontally transferred genes contribute to the evolution of Lepidopteran insects

(2011) Zi-Wen Li et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

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

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2011) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

Reductive Evolution of Bacterial Genome in Insect Gut Environment

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

Genomic basis of endosymbiont-conferred protection against an insect parasitoid

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The genome of the leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex echinatiorsuggests key adaptations to advanced social life and fungus farming

(2011) Sanne Nygaard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Quantitative genetics of feeding behavior in two ecological races of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2011) M C Caillaud et al.   HEREDITY

Evolution of symbiotic organs and endosymbionts in lygaeid stinkbugs

(2011) Yu Matsuura et al.   ISME Journal

Independent Origins of Vectored Plant Pathogenic Bacteria from Arthropod-Associated Arsenophonus Endosymbionts

(2011) Alberto Bressan et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Genome Expansion and Differential Expression of Amino Acid Transporters at the Aphid/Buchnera Symbiotic Interface

(2011) D. R. G. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genetic and metabolic determinants of nutritional phenotype in an insect-bacterial symbiosis

(2011) S. J. MACDONALD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Multimodal dynamic response of the Buchnera aphidicola pLeu plasmid to variations in leucine demand of its host, the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2011) José Viñuelas et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations

(2011) Miodrag Grbić et al.   NATURE

The Dynamics of Plant Cell-Wall Polysaccharide Decomposition in Leaf-Cutting Ant Fungus Gardens

(2011) Isabel E. Moller et al.   PLoS One

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

Phytoplasma protein effector SAP11 enhances insect vector reproduction by manipulating plant development and defense hormone biosynthesis

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

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

Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated

(2011) A. Caspi-Fluger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?

(2011) JASON R. CRYAN et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Sequence Conservation and Functional Constraint on Intergenic Spacers in Reduced Genomes of the Obligate Symbiont Buchnera

(2011) Patrick H. Degnan et al.   PLoS Genetics

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

Bacteriocyte dynamics during development of a holometabolous insect, the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2010) Sascha Stoll et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Defensive endosymbionts: a cryptic trophic level in community ecology

(2010) John Jaenike et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dissecting the association between a gall midge, Asteromyia carbonifera, and its symbiotic fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea

(2010) Jeremy J. Heath et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

‘Candidatus Liberibacter europaeus’ sp. nov. that is associated with and transmitted by the psyllid Cacopsylla pyri apparently behaves as an endophyte rather than a pathogen

(2010) Noura Raddadi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The ecology of the phyllosphere: geographic and phylogenetic variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leaves

(2010) Amanda J. Redford et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inter- and intraspecific comparison of the bacterial assemblages in the hindgut of humivorous scarab beetle larvae (Pachnoda spp.)

(2010) Janet Andert et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Genomic insight into the amino acid relations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, with its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

(2010) A. C. C. Wilson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Rapid shifts in Atta cephalotes fungus-garden enzyme activity after a change in fungal substrate (Attini, Formicidae)

(2010) P. W. Kooij et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

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

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Symbiont-mediated phenotypic variation without co-evolution in an insect-fungus association

(2010) E. M. JANSON et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Increased Phloem Transport of S-Methylmethionine Positively Affects Sulfur and Nitrogen Metabolism and Seed Development in Pea Plants

(2010) Q. Tan et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Microbial Symbionts in Insects Influence Down-Regulation of Defense Genes in Maize

(2010) Kelli L. Barr et al.   PLoS One

Diversity of Beetle Genes Encoding Novel Plant Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes

(2010) Yannick Pauchet et al.   PLoS One

Multiple lateral gene transfers and duplications have promoted plant parasitism ability in nematodes

(2010) Etienne G. J. Danchin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of bacterial secondary symbionts on host plant use in pea aphids

(2010) A. H. C. McLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sources of variation in dietary requirements in an obligate nutritional symbiosis

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

Plant green-island phenotype induced by leaf-miners is mediated by bacterial symbionts

(2010) W. Kaiser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Insect endosymbionts: manipulators of insect herbivore trophic interactions?

(2010) Emily L. Clark et al.   PROTOPLASMA

Lateral Transfer of Genes from Fungi Underlies Carotenoid Production in Aphids

(2010) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

An Insect Herbivore Microbiome with High Plant Biomass-Degrading Capacity

(2010) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Cellulolytic Systems in Insects

(2009) Hirofumi Watanabe et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

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

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

A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids

(2009) C. Vorburger et al.   Biology Letters

Contributions of gut bacteria to Bacillus thuringiensis-induced mortality vary across a range of Lepidoptera

(2009) Nichole A Broderick et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Demography of Gut Symbiotic and Aposymbiotic Nezara viridula L. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

(2009) Simone S. Prado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Same Host-Plant, Different Sterols: Variation in Sterol Metabolism in an Insect Herbivore Community

(2009) Eric M. Janson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Contribution of gut bacteria to digestion and development of the velvetbean caterpillar, Anticarsia gemmatalis

(2009) L.E. Visôtto et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Age- and morph-dependent activation of the lysosomal system and Buchnera degradation in aphid endosymbiosis

(2009) Kenji Nishikori et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Robustness of the Bacterial Community in the Cabbage White Butterfly Larval Midgut

(2009) Courtney J. Robinson et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Can the tight co-speciation between reed beetles (Col., Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae) and their bacterial endosymbionts, which provide cocoon material, clarify the deeper phylogeny of the hosts?

(2009) Gregor Kölsch et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Protein structure prediction on the Web: a case study using the Phyre server

(2009) Lawrence A Kelley et al.   Nature Protocols

Evolutionary history and species interactions

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

Post-Pleistocene radiation of the pea aphid complex revealed by rapidly evolving endosymbionts

(2009) J. Peccoud 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

Symbiotic bacteria enable insect to use a nutritionally inadequate diet

(2009) E Akman Gunduz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Microbial associations in gut systems of wood- and bark-inhabiting longhorned beetles [Coleoptera: Cerambycidae]

(2009) S. Grünwald et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Infection Dynamics of Coexisting Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria in the Nested Endosymbiotic System of Mealybugs

(2008) M. Kono et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A New Huanglongbing Species, "Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous," Found To Infect Tomato and Potato, Is Vectored by the Psyllid Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc)

(2008) A. K. Hansen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Towards a molecular understanding of symbiont function: Identification of a fungal gene for the degradation of xylan in the fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants

(2008) Morten Schiøtt et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Hydrolytic enzymes of leaf-cutting ant fungi

(2008) Milton Erthal et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plant–insect dialogs: complex interactions at the plant–insect interface

(2008) Gary W Felton et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Plants, gall midges, and fungi: a three-component system

(2008) Odette Rohfritsch   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION AND GENETIC VARIATION IN PERFORMANCE ON EIGHT HOSTS IN THE PEA APHID COMPLEX

(2008) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

The Striking Case of Tryptophan Provision in the Cedar Aphid Cinara cedri

(2008) M. J. Gosalbes et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Analysis of a Horizontally Transferred Pathway Involved in Vitamin B6 Biosynthesis from the Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines

(2008) J. P. Craig 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

Genome of an Endosymbiont Coupling N2 Fixation to Cellulolysis Within Protist Cells in Termite Gut

(2008) Y. Hongoh et al.   SCIENCE

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Luís Teixeira et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY