Adopting Bacteria in Order to Adapt to Water—How Reed Beetles Colonized the Wetlands (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae)

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Defensive endosymbionts: a cryptic trophic level in community ecology

(2010) John Jaenike et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The evolution of mutualism

(2010) E. G. LEIGH Jr   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations

(2010) J. B. YODER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Ultrastructural and molecular characterization of endosymbionts of the reed beetle genus Macroplea (Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae), and proposal of “Candidatus Macropleicola appendiculatae” and “Candidatus Macropleicola muticae”

(2009) Gregor Kölsch et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects

(2009) Cara M. Gibson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Life cycle and population dynamics of a protective insect symbiont reveal severe bottlenecks during vertical transmission

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Endosymbiotic Bacteria in Insects: Their Diversity and Culturability

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

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

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Molecular phylogeny of reed beetles (Col., Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae): The signature of ecological specialization and geographical isolation

(2008) Gregor Kölsch et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Multiple symbiosis in the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): Details of transovarial transmission of Cardinium sp. and yeast-like endosymbionts

(2008) L. Sacchi et al.   TISSUE & CELL