(My Microbiome) Would Walk 10,000 miles: Maintenance and Turnover of Microbial Communities in Introduced Dung Beetles

Symbiotic microbiota may reflect host adaptation by resident to invasive ant species

(2019) Daifeng Cheng et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Jekyll and Hyde symbiont: could Wolbachia be a nutritional mutualist?

(2019) Irene L.G. Newton et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The microbiota regulate neuronal function and fear extinction learning

(2019) Coco Chu et al.   NATURE

Wolbachia Control Stem Cell Behavior and Stimulate Germline Proliferation in Filarial Nematodes

(2018) Vincent Foray et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Transgenerational developmental effects of species-specific, maternally transmitted microbiota in Onthophagus dung beetles

(2018) Erik S. Parker et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Is Host Filtering the Main Driver of Phylosymbiosis across the Tree of Life?

(2018) Florent Mazel et al.   mSystems

Microbial communities exhibit host species distinguishability and phylosymbiosis along the length of the gastrointestinal tract

(2017) Kevin D. Kohl et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time

(2017) Mathieu Groussin et al.   Nature Communications

Nutrient quality of vertebrate dung as a diet for dung beetles

(2017) Kevin Frank et al.   Scientific Reports

Developmental and Ecological Benefits of the Maternally Transmitted Microbiota in a Dung Beetle

(2016) Daniel B. Schwab et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Contextualized niche shifts upon independent invasions by the dung beetle Onthophagus taurus

(2016) Daniel P. Silva et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Presence does not imply activity: DNA and RNA patterns differ in response to salt perturbation in anaerobic digestion

(2016) Jo De Vrieze et al.   Biotechnology for Biofuels

Herbivore dung as food for dung beetles: elementary coprology for entomologists

(2016) PETER HOLTER   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Differences in endophyte communities of introduced trees depend on the phylogenetic relatedness of the receiving forest

(2016) Michael J. Gundale et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Gut microbiota of dung beetles correspond to dietary specializations of adults and larvae

(2016) Shantanu P. Shukla et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylosymbiosis: Relationships and Functional Effects of Microbial Communities across Host Evolutionary History

(2016) Andrew W. Brooks et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

The Importance of Microbes in Animal Development: Lessons from the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis

(2014) Margaret J. McFall-Ngai   Annual Review of Microbiology

Native microbiome impedes vertical transmission of Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes

(2014) G. L. Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The chemical cue tetrabromopyrrole from a biofilm bacterium induces settlement of multiple Caribbean corals

(2014) J. M. Sneed et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Marine Tubeworm Metamorphosis Induced by Arrays of Bacterial Phage Tail-Like Structures

(2014) N. J. Shikuma et al.   SCIENCE

Sponge larval settlement cues: the role of microbial biofilms in a warming ocean

(2014) S. Whalan et al.   Scientific Reports

Lack of fidelity revealed in an insect-fungal mutualism after invasion

(2013) A. L. Wooding et al.   Biology Letters

Fidelity Among Sirex Woodwasps and Their Fungal Symbionts

(2013) Ann E. Hajek et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The gut microbiota — masters of host development and physiology

(2013) Felix Sommer et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

Metagenomic Insights into Metabolic Capacities of the Gut Microbiota in a Fungus-Cultivating Termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

(2013) Ning Liu et al.   PLoS One

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

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

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

The Hologenomic Basis of Speciation: Gut Bacteria Cause Hybrid Lethality in the Genus Nasonia

(2013) R. M. Brucker et al.   SCIENCE

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evolution of cold-tolerant fungal symbionts permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant-fungus symbiosis

(2011) U. G. Mueller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Statistical Methods for Detecting Differentially Abundant Features in Clinical Metagenomic Samples

(2009) James Robert White et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A SURVIVAL-REPRODUCTION TRADE-OFF IN ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODES MEDIATED BY THEIR BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS

(2008) Vanya Emelianoff et al.   EVOLUTION

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE