Bacterial symbionts support larval sap feeding and adult folivory in (semi-)aquatic reed beetles

Microbial symbionts expanding or constraining abiotic niche space in insects

(2020) Marion M. Lemoine et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle

(2019) Javier A. Ceja-Navarro et al.   Nature Microbiology

Match and mismatch between dietary switches and microbial partners in plant sap-feeding insects

(2019) Louis Bell-Roberts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Life of an Insect Endosymbiont from the Cradle to the Grave

(2019) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Links between metamorphosis and symbiosis in holometabolous insects

(2019) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The phylogeny of leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae) inferred from mitochondrial genomes

(2019) Rui‐e Nie et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity

(2019) Duane D. McKenna et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Minimal fermentative metabolism fuels extracellular symbiont in a leaf beetle

(2019) Eugen Bauer et al.   ISME Journal

KBase: The United States Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase

(2018) Adam P Arkin et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

dbCAN2: a meta server for automated carbohydrate-active enzyme annotation

(2018) Han Zhang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Canu: scalable and accurate long-read assembly via adaptivek-mer weighting and repeat separation

(2017) Sergey Koren et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

BusyBee Web: metagenomic data analysis by bootstrapped supervised binning and annotation

(2017) Cedric C. Laczny et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Small genome symbiont underlies cuticle hardness in beetles

(2017) Hisashi Anbutsu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Reinventing the Wheel and Making It Round Again: Evolutionary Convergence inBuchnera–SerratiaSymbiotic Consortia between the Distantly Related Lachninae AphidsTuberolachnus salignusandCinara cedri

(2016) Alejandro Manzano-Marín et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributes to the Evolution of Arthropod Herbivory

(2016) Nicky Wybouw et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

How multi-partner endosymbioses function

(2016) Angela E. Douglas   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis

(2016) Jana Trifinopoulos et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

KEGG: new perspectives on genomes, pathways, diseases and drugs

(2016) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogeny and evolution of the superfamily Chrysomeloidea (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia)

(2016) STEPHANIE HADDAD et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Bacteriome-Localized Intracellular Symbionts in Pollen-Feeding Beetles of the Genus Dasytes (Coleoptera, Dasytidae)

(2016) Benjamin Weiss et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

Essential Amino Acid Supplementation by Gut Microbes of a Wood-Feeding Cerambycid

(2015) Paul A. Ayayee et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior,Nicrophorus vespilloides(Coleoptera: Silphidae)

(2015) Christopher B. Cunningham et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

KEGG as a reference resource for gene and protein annotation

(2015) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Functional genomics and microbiome profiling of the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) reveal insights into the digestive physiology and nutritional ecology of wood feeding beetles

(2014) Erin D Scully et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Insects Recycle Endosymbionts when the Benefit Is Over

(2014) Aurélien Vigneron et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Horizontal gene transfer and functional diversification of plant cell wall degrading polygalacturonases: Key events in the evolution of herbivory in beetles

(2014) Roy Kirsch et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

Enzymes from the Haloacid Dehalogenase (HAD) Superfamily Catalyse the Elusive Dephosphorylation Step of Riboflavin Biosynthesis

(2013) Ilka Haase et al.   CHEMBIOCHEM

Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis

(2013) James R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Draft genome of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, a major forest pest

(2013) Christopher I Keeling et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Endogenous Plant Cell Wall Digestion: A Key Mechanism in Insect Evolution

(2012) Nancy Calderón-Cortés et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Combining proteomics and transcriptome sequencing to identify active plant-cell-wall-degrading enzymes in a leaf beetle

(2012) Roy Kirsch et al.   BMC GENOMICS

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Shared Ancestry of Symbionts? Sagrinae and Donaciinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) Harbor Similar Bacteria

(2012) Gregor Kölsch et al.   Insects

The aquatic leaf beetle speciesMacroplea muticaandM. appendiculata(Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Donaciinae) differ in their use ofMyriophyllum spicatumas a host plant

(2011) Gregor Kölsch et al.   AQUATIC INSECTS

Hive plots--rational approach to visualizing networks

(2011) M. Krzywinski et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Origins of Specificity and Promiscuity in Metabolic Networks

(2011) Pablo Carbonell et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

(2011) Birgit Kleinschmidt et al.   Insects

CD-HIT Suite: a web server for clustering and comparing biological sequences

(2010) Ying Huang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Genomic insight into the amino acid relations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, with its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

(2010) A. C. C. Wilson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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

Diversity of Beetle Genes Encoding Novel Plant Cell Wall Degrading Enzymes

(2010) Yannick Pauchet et al.   PLoS One

Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

(2010) E. F. Kirkness et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

(2009) T. Hosokawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology

(2008) Ramy K Aziz et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Unique aspects of the grass cell wall

(2008) J VOGEL   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

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

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Multilocus ribosomal RNA phylogeny of the leaf beetles (Chrysomelidae)

(2007) Jesús Gómez-Zurita et al.   CLADISTICS