Rethinking “mutualism” in diverse host-symbiont communities

The Host as the Driver of the Microbiota in the Gut and External Environment of Drosophila melanogaster

(2015) Adam C.-N. Wong et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Productivity links morphology, symbiont specificity and bleaching in the evolution of Caribbean octocoral symbioses

(2015) David M Baker et al.   ISME Journal

Marked seasonal variation in the wild mouse gut microbiota

(2015) Corinne F Maurice et al.   ISME Journal

Coral symbiotic algae calcifyex hospitein partnership with bacteria

(2015) Jörg C. Frommlet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

(2015) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Metabolic dependencies drive species co-occurrence in diverse microbial communities

(2015) Aleksej Zelezniak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects

(2015) H. Salem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The unexhausted potential of E. coli

(2015) Zachary D Blount   eLife

Insects Recycle Endosymbionts when the Benefit Is Over

(2014) Aurélien Vigneron et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Gut microbes of mammalian herbivores facilitate intake of plant toxins

(2014) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

How context dependent are species interactions?

(2014) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

LESS IS MORE: SELECTIVE ADVANTAGES CAN EXPLAIN THE PREVALENT LOSS OF BIOSYNTHETIC GENES IN BACTERIA

(2014) Glen D'Souza et al.   EVOLUTION

Unique and shared responses of the gut microbiota to prolonged fasting: a comparative study across five classes of vertebrate hosts

(2014) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Finding the Missing Links among Metabolites, Microbes, and the Host

(2014) Pieter C. Dorrestein et al.   IMMUNITY

Facilitation cascade maintains a kelp community

(2014) JE Bell et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Mosquitoes rely on their gut microbiota for development

(2014) Kerri L. Coon et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The chemistry of negotiation: Rhythmic, glycan-driven acidification in a symbiotic conversation

(2014) Julia A. Schwartzman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism

(2014) E. F. Y. Hom et al.   SCIENCE

Microbiota-Induced Changes in Drosophila melanogaster Host Gene Expression and Gut Morphology

(2014) N. A. Broderick et al.   mBio

Symbiosis as a General Principle in Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. E. Douglas   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Not just who, but how many: the importance of partner abundance in reef coral symbioses

(2014) Ross Cunning et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The symbiont side of symbiosis: do microbes really benefit?

(2014) Justine R. Garcia et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Epidemiology and Evolution of Symbionts with Mixed-Mode Transmission

(2013) Dieter Ebert   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Interspecies Interactions Determine the Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Nutrient Allocation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Peter D. Newell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

(2013) Lee M. Henry et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Multiple mutualist effects: conflict and synergy in multispecies mutualisms

(2013) Michelle E. Afkhami et al.   ECOLOGY

The protective role of endogenous bacterial communities in chironomid egg masses and larvae

(2013) Yigal Senderovich et al.   ISME Journal

Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

(2013) Hauke Koch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

(2013) Jon G. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial colonization factors control specificity and stability of the gut microbiota

(2013) S. Melanie Lee et al.   NATURE

A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in thegacAgene

(2013) Pierre Stallforth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gut bacteria facilitate adaptation to crop rotation in the western corn rootworm

(2013) C.-C. Chu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiotic bacteria appear to mediate hyena social odors

(2013) K. R. Theis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Frequent Replenishment Sustains the Beneficial Microbiome of Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) J. E. Blum et al.   mBio

Mom Knows Best: The Universality of Maternal Microbial Transmission

(2013) Lisa J. Funkhouser et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation

(2012) Jennifer J Wernegreen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The potter’s wheel: the host’s role in sculpting its microbiota

(2011) Charles L. Bevins et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Genome sequencing of environmental Escherichia coli expands understanding of the ecology and speciation of the model bacterial species

(2011) C. Luo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Is the coral-algae symbiosis really ‘mutually beneficial’ for the partners?

(2010) Scott A. Wooldridge   BIOESSAYS

Reproducible Community Dynamics of the Gastrointestinal Microbiota following Antibiotic Perturbation

(2009) D. A. Antonopoulos et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The evolution of facilitation and mutualism

(2009) Judith L. Bronstein   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Joint Dispersal Does Not Imply Maintenance of Partnerships in Lichen Symbioses

(2009) Sabine Wornik et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Conflict, cheats and the persistence of symbioses

(2008) Angela E. Douglas   NEW PHYTOLOGIST