Riding the Trojan horse: combating pest insects with their own symbionts

Bacterially enriched diet improves sexual performance of sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies

(2011) S. Gavriel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Give us the tools and we will do the job: symbiotic bacteria affect olive fly fitness in a diet-dependent fashion

(2010) M. Ben-Yosef et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Establishment and Vertical Passage of Enterobacter (Pantoea) agglomerans and Klebsiella pneumoniae through All Life Stages of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

(2009) C. R. Lauzon et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Acetobacter tropicalis Is a Major Symbiont of the Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae)

(2009) I. Kounatidis 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

The hologenome theory of evolution contains Lamarckian aspects within a Darwinian framework

(2009) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Manipulation of the microbiota of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) improves sterile male sexual performance

(2009) Eyal Ben Ami et al.   ISME Journal

Bacteria-diet interactions affect longevity in the medfly -Ceratitis capitata

(2009) M. Ben-Yosef et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Evidence for Metabolic Provisioning by a Common Invertebrate Endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, during Periods of Nutritional Stress

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Obligate Mutualist Wigglesworthia glossinidia Influences Reproduction, Digestion, and Immunity Processes of Its Host, the Tsetse Fly

(2008) R. Pais et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Presence of specific symbiotic bacteria in flies of the subfamily Tephritinae (Diptera Tephritidae) and their phylogenetic relationships: proposal of 'Candidatus Stammerula tephritidis'

(2008) L. Mazzon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Gut bacterial communities in the Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) and their impact on host longevity

(2008) A. Behar et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

Bringing back the fruit into fruit fly–bacteria interactions

(2008) A. BEHAR et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Innate Immune Homeostasis by the Homeobox Gene Caudal and Commensal-Gut Mutualism in Drosophila

(2008) J.-H. Ryu et al.   SCIENCE