Molecular evidence for ongoing complementarity and horizontal gene transfer in endosymbiotic systems of mealybugs

Mealybugs nested endosymbiosis: going into the ‘matryoshka’ system in Planococcus citri in depth

(2013) Sergio López-Madrigal et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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

Mealybugs with distinct endosymbiotic systems living on the same host plant

(2012) Ryuichi Koga et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

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

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Molecular and Histological Characterization of Primary (Betaproteobacteria) and Secondary (Gammaproteobacteria) Endosymbionts of Three Mealybug Species

(2011) Laurence N. Gatehouse et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

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

Complete Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Tremblaya princeps" Strain PCVAL, an Intriguing Translational Machine below the Living-Cell Status

(2011) S. Lopez-Madrigal et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Evolutionary Relationships among Primary Endosymbionts of the Mealybug Subfamily Phenacoccinae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)

(2010) M. E. Gruwell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Functional Convergence in Reduced Genomes of Bacterial Symbionts Spanning 200 My of Evolution

(2010) John P. McCutcheon et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A subfamily-level classification of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) based on integrated molecular and morphological data

(2010) NATE B. HARDY et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

The evolutionary history of symbiotic associations among bacteria and their animal hosts: a model

(2009) A. Moya et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

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

The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachia do not walk alone

(2008) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Improved group-specific PCR primers for denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of the genetic diversity of complex microbial communities

(2008) Martin Mühling et al.   ISME Journal

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS