Brood Ball-Mediated Transmission of Microbiome Members in the Dung Beetle, Onthophagus taurus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

Elongated hindguts in desert-living dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) feeding on dry dung pellets or plant litter

(2013) Peter Holter et al.   JOURNAL OF MORPHOLOGY

Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Endosymbionts of Herbivorous Insects Reveals Eco-Environmental Adaptations: Biotechnology Applications

(2013) Weibing Shi et al.   PLoS Genetics

High-Resolution Analysis of Gut Environment and Bacterial Microbiota Reveals Functional Compartmentation of the Gut in Wood-Feeding Higher Termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

(2012) Tim Köhler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Prevalence of Candidatus Erwinia dacicola in Wild and Laboratory Olive Fruit Fly Populations and Across Developmental Stages

(2012) Anne M. Estes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Isolation and Identification of Cellulolytic Bacteria from the Gut of Holotrichia parallela Larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2012) Shengwei Huang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Tissue distribution and transmission routes for the tsetse fly endosymbionts

(2012) Séverine Balmand et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

CloVR: A virtual machine for automated and portable sequence analysis from the desktop using cloud computing

(2011) Samuel V Angiuoli et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Green fluorescent protein (GFP)-labeling of enterobacteria associated with fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) and persistence in their natural host Rhagoletis completa Cresson.

(2011) Isabel Martinez-Sañudo et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Conservation and diversification of gene function during mouthpart development in Onthophagus beetles

(2011) Franck Simonnet et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Comparison of 16S rRNA and protein-coding genes as molecular markers for assessing microbial diversity (Bacteria and Archaea) in ecosystems

(2011) Simon Roux et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

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

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

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

(2010) Sascha Stoll et al.   BMC 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

The scarab gut: A potential bioreactor for bio-fuel production

(2010) Sheng-Wei Huang et al.   Insect Science

Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from the Gut ofBombyx morithat Degrade Cellulose, Xylan, Pectin and Starch and Their Impact on Digestion

(2010) A. Alwin Prem Anand et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

(2010) Johannes Kroiss et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The Effects of Alignment Quality, Distance Calculation Method, Sequence Filtering, and Region on the Analysis of 16S rRNA Gene-Based Studies

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss   PLoS Computational Biology

Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences

(2010) Justin Kuczynski et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Olive Fly Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola," Switches from an Intracellular Existence to an Extracellular Existence during Host Insect Development

(2009) A. M. Estes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization and evolution of two bacteriome-inhabiting symbionts in cixiid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Pentastirini)

(2009) Alberto Bressan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Absence of the symbiontCandidatusMidichloria mitochondrii in the mitochondria of the tickIxodes holocyclus

(2009) Tiziana Beninati et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Desert detritivory: Nutritional ecology of a dung beetle (Pachysoma glentoni) subsisting on plant litter in arid South African sand dunes

(2009) P. Holter et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles

(2008) E. Nichols et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Autochthonous bacterial flora indicated by PCR-DGGE of 16S rRNA gene fragments from the alimentary tract ofCostelytra zealandica(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

(2008) H. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED 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

Effect of bacteria on nutritional status and reproductive success of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

(2008) MICHAEL BEN-YOSEF et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A simple, fast, and accurate method of phylogenomic inference

(2008) Martin Wu et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY