Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities

Correlation and causation between the microbiome, Wolbachia and host functional traits in natural populations of drosophilid flies

(2019) Caroline Fromont et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Metacommunity-scale biodiversity regulation and the self-organised emergence of macroecological patterns

(2019) Jacob D. O’Sullivan et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Neutrality in the Metaorganism

(2019) Michael Sieber et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Parasitic wasp-associated symbiont affects plant-mediated species interactions between herbivores

(2018) Antonino Cusumano et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Seasonal shifts in the insect gut microbiome are concurrent with changes in cold tolerance and immunity

(2018) Laura V. Ferguson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Microbial community assembly in wild populations of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster

(2018) Karen L. Adair et al.   ISME Journal

Symbiotic polydnavirus and venom reveal parasitoid to its hyperparasitoids

(2018) Feng Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal variation in drivers of parasitoid metacommunity structure in continuous forest landscapes

(2018) Ronan Marrec et al.   Ecosphere

Microbiota disruption leads to reduced cold tolerance in Drosophila flies

(2018) Youn Henry et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Microbiomes as Metacommunities: Understanding Host-Associated Microbes through Metacommunity Ecology

(2018) Elizabeth Theresa Miller et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Happens in the best of subfamilies: establishment and repeated replacements of co-obligate secondary endosymbionts within Lachninae aphids

(2017) Alejandro Manzano-Marín et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genotype specificity among hosts, pathogens, and beneficial microbes influences the strength of symbiont-mediated protection

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   EVOLUTION

Consequences of symbiont co-infections for insect host phenotypes

(2017) Ailsa H. C. McLean et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

(2017) Bob Carpenter et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Context-dependent vertical transmission shapes strong endosymbiont community structure in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2017) Danielle I. Rock et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Burying beetles regulate the microbiome of carcasses and use it to transmit a core microbiota to their offspring

(2017) Shantanu P. Shukla et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome

(2017) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbionts protect aphids from parasitic wasps by attenuating herbivore-induced plant volatiles

(2017) Enric Frago et al.   Nature Communications

Stochastic assembly produces heterogeneous communities in the Caenorhabditis elegans intestine

(2017) Nicole M. Vega et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Antibiotic exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and elevates mortality in honeybees

(2017) Kasie Raymann et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Wolbachia Infections in Aedes aegypti Differ Markedly in Their Response to Cyclical Heat Stress

(2017) Perran A. Ross et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Mosquito Microbiome Dynamics, a Background for Prevalence and Seasonality of West Nile Virus

(2017) Eva Novakova et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A Multiscale Approach to Plant Disease Using the Metacommunity Concept

(2016) Elizabeth T. Borer et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Open questions: how does Wolbachia do what it does?

(2016) Francis M. Jiggins   BMC BIOLOGY

Bacterial endosymbionts protect aphids in the field and alter parasitoid community composition

(2016) Lukas Rothacher et al.   ECOLOGY

Heritable symbionts in a world of varying temperature

(2016) C Corbin et al.   HEREDITY

Wolbachia-mediated protection against viruses in the invasive pestDrosophila suzukii

(2016) J. Cattel et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plantmediated horizontal transmission of Wolbachia between whiteflies

(2016) Shao-Jian Li et al.   ISME Journal

Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field

(2016) Jan Hrček et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Insect symbionts in food webs

(2016) Ailsa H. C. McLean et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Obligate bacterial mutualists evolving from environmental bacteria in natural insect populations

(2016) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   Nature Microbiology

Bacterial Communities Differ among Drosophila melanogaster Populations and Affect Host Resistance against Parasitoids

(2016) Mariia Chaplinska et al.   PLoS One

A guide to Bayesian model selection for ecologists

(2015) M. B. Hooten et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The community ecology of pathogens: coinfection, coexistence and community composition

(2015) Eric W. Seabloom et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Insect life history and the evolution of bacterial mutualism

(2015) Lee M. Henry et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Horizontal transfer of facultative endosymbionts is limited by host relatedness

(2015) Piotr Łukasik et al.   EVOLUTION

Wolbachiastrains for disease control: ecological and evolutionary considerations

(2015) Ary A. Hoffmann et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Can maternally inherited endosymbionts adapt to a novel host? Direct costs of Spiroplasma infection, but not vertical transmission efficiency, evolve rapidly after horizontal transfer into D. melanogaster

(2015) S Nakayama et al.   HEREDITY

Macroevolutionary persistence of heritable endosymbionts: acquisition, retention and expression of adaptive phenotypes inSpiroplasma

(2015) Tamara S. Haselkorn et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gut microbes may facilitate insect herbivory of chemically defended plants

(2015) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   OECOLOGIA

Why infectious disease research needs community ecology

(2015) P. T. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability

(2015) K. Z. Coyte et al.   SCIENCE

The Intracellular Bacterium Wolbachia Uses Parasitoid Wasps as Phoretic Vectors for Efficient Horizontal Transmission

(2015) Muhammad Z. Ahmed et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Microbiomes: unifying animal and plant systems through the lens of community ecology theory

(2015) Natalie Christian et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Defining dysbiosis and its influence on host immunity and disease

(2014) Charisse Petersen et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Combining principal component analysis with parameter line-searches to improve the efficacy of Metropolis–Hastings MCMC

(2014) David A. Kennedy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL STATISTICS

Evolutionary limits to cooperation in microbial communities

(2014) Nuno M. Oliveira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An ecological cost associated with protective symbionts of aphids

(2014) Sarah Polin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Limited Dengue Virus Replication in Field-Collected Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Infected with Wolbachia

(2014) Francesca D. Frentiu et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Deciphering microbial interactions and detecting keystone species with co-occurrence networks

(2014) David Berry et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Harnessing mosquito–Wolbachia symbiosis for vector and disease control

(2013) Kostas Bourtzis et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

(2013) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

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

Overview of Drosophila immunity: A historical perspective

(2013) Jean-Luc Imler   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Defensive symbiosis in the real world - advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

(2013) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Male killing Spiroplasma protects Drosophila melanogaster against two parasitoid wasps

(2013) J Xie et al.   HEREDITY

Protection against a fungal pathogen conferred by the aphid facultative endosymbiontsRickettsiaandSpiroplasmais expressed in multiple host genotypes and species and is not influenced by co-infection with another symbiont

(2013) P. Łukasik et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Altered profile of human gut microbiome is associated with cirrhosis and its complications

(2013) Jasmohan S. Bajaj et al.   JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY

Worldwide Populations of the Aphid Aphis craccivora Are Infected with Diverse Facultative Bacterial Symbionts

(2013) Cristina M. Brady et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Disentangling the role of connectivity, environmental filtering, and spatial structure on metacommunity dynamics

(2013) C. Moritz et al.   OIKOS

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

(2013) Anne M. Estes et al.   PLoS One

Frequent Replenishment Sustains the Beneficial Microbiome of Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) J. E. Blum et al.   mBio

Comparing constitutive and induced costs of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

(2013) Christoph Vorburger et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Wolbachia Variants Induce Differential Protection to Viruses in Drosophila melanogaster: A Phenotypic and Phylogenomic Analysis

(2013) Ewa Chrostek et al.   PLoS Genetics

Host Defense via Symbiosis in Drosophila

(2013) Phineas T. Hamilton et al.   PLoS Pathogens

From Animalcules to an Ecosystem: Application of Ecological Concepts to the Human Microbiome

(2012) Noah Fierer et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

(2012) L. Gehrer et al.   Biology Letters

Competition, Not Cooperation, Dominates Interactions among Culturable Microbial Species

(2012) Kevin R. Foster et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Loss of reproductive parasitism following transfer of male-killing Wolbachia to Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila simulans

(2012) Z Veneti et al.   HEREDITY

Wolbachia and DNA Barcoding Insects: Patterns, Potential, and Problems

(2012) M. Alex Smith et al.   PLoS One

The Application of Ecological Theory Toward an Understanding of the Human Microbiome

(2012) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Linking metacommunity theory and symbiont evolutionary ecology

(2012) Joseph R. Mihaljevic   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Insect symbionts as hidden players in insect–plant interactions

(2012) Enric Frago et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The function of our microbiota: who is out there and what do they do?

(2012) Noora Ottman et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Rickettsia influences thermotolerance in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci B biotype

(2011) Marina Brumin et al.   Insect Science

Gut microbiome dysbiosis and honeybee health

(2011) C. Hamdi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Only helpful when required: a longevity cost of harbouring defensive symbionts

(2011) C. VORBURGER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How do insects react to novel inherited symbionts? A microarray analysis of Drosophila melanogaster response to the presence of natural and introduced Spiroplasma

(2011) KATE J. HUTCHENCE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities

(2011) J. Ferrari et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Facultative Symbiont Infections Affect Aphid Reproduction

(2011) Jean-Christophe Simon et al.   PLoS One

Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated

(2011) A. Caspi-Fluger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The sudden emergence of pathogenicity in insect-fungus symbioses threatens naive forest ecosystems

(2011) J. Hulcr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Empirical approaches to metacommunities: a review and comparison with theory

(2011) Jürg B. Logue et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

(2011) James Angus Chandler et al.   PLoS Genetics

Microbial symbionts: a resource for the management of insect-related problems

(2011) Elena Crotti et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Network topology: patterns and mechanisms in plant-herbivore and host-parasitoid food webs

(2010) Luciano Cagnolo et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Spiroplasma Bacteria Enhance Survival of Drosophila hydei Attacked by the Parasitic Wasp Leptopilina heterotoma

(2010) Jialei Xie et al.   PLoS One

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids

(2009) C. Vorburger et al.   Biology Letters

Localization and transmission route of Coriobacterium glomerans, the endosymbiont of pyrrhocorid bugs

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Multiple introductions of theSpiroplasmabacterial endosymbiont intoDrosophila

(2009) TAMARA S. HASELKORN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Linking biodiversity and ecosystems: towards a unifying ecological theory

(2009) M. Loreau   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Variable Incidence of Spiroplasma Infections in Natural Populations of Drosophila Species

(2009) Thomas Watts et al.   PLoS One

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Applying the Theory of Island Biogeography to Emerging Pathogens: Toward Predicting the Sources of Future Emerging Zoonotic and Vector-Borne Diseases

(2009) Leslie A. Reperant   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals:Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans and Animals

(2008) Matthew James Keeling et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Coupled population dynamics of endosymbionts within and between hosts

(2008) John Jaenike   OIKOS

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

Symbioses of flagellates and prokaryotes in the gut of lower termites

(2008) Moriya Ohkuma   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genotype-by-Environment Interactions and Adaptation to Local Temperature Affect Immunity and Fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Brian P. Lazzaro et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES