Continent-Scale Sampling Reveals Fine-Scale Turnover in a Beneficial Bug Symbiont

Burkholderia insecticola triggers midgut closure in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris to prevent secondary bacterial infections of midgut crypts

(2020) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative cytology, physiology and transcriptomics of Burkholderia insecticola in symbiosis with the bean bug Riptortus pedestris and in culture

(2019) Tsubasa Ohbayashi et al.   ISME Journal

Versatile and Dynamic Symbioses Between Insects and Burkholderia Bacteria

(2019) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Host–symbiont specificity determined by microbe–microbe competition in an insect gut

(2019) Hideomi Itoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Characterization and remediation of sample index swaps by non-redundant dual indexing on massively parallel sequencing platforms

(2018) Maura Costello et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Infection dynamics of insecticide-degrading symbionts from soil to insects in response to insecticide spraying

(2018) Hideomi Itoh et al.   ISME Journal

Best practices for analysing microbiomes

(2018) Rob Knight et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

(2018) Nicole M. Davis et al.   Microbiome

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

Riptortus pedestris and Burkholderia symbiont: an ideal model system for insect–microbe symbiotic associations

(2017) Kazutaka Takeshita et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ancestral alliances: Plant mutualistic symbioses with fungi and bacteria

(2017) Francis M. Martin et al.   SCIENCE

Phylogenetically Diverse Burkholderia Associated with Midgut Crypts of Spurge Bugs, Dicranocephalus spp. (Heteroptera: Stenocephalidae)

(2016) Stefan Martin Kuechler et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

Collapse of Insect Gut Symbiosis under Simulated Climate Change

(2016) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   mBio

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

Burkholderia of Plant-Beneficial Group are Symbiotically Associated with Bordered Plant Bugs (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoroidea: Largidae)

(2015) Kazutaka Takeshita et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Insect’s intestinal organ for symbiont sorting

(2015) Tsubasa Ohbayashi 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

Evidence of Environmental and Vertical Transmission of Burkholderia Symbionts in the Oriental Chinch Bug, Cavelerius saccharivorus (Heteroptera: Blissidae)

(2014) Hideomi Itoh et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Partner associations across sympatric broad-headed bug species and their environmentally acquired bacterial symbionts

(2014) J. R. Garcia et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Waste Not, Want Not: Why Rarefying Microbiome Data Is Inadmissible

(2014) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Epidemiology and Evolution of Symbionts with Mixed-Mode Transmission

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

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Diverse Strategies for Vertical Symbiont Transmission among Subsocial Stinkbugs

(2013) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   PLoS One

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

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie 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

Detection and characterization of bacterial symbionts in the Heteropteran,Blissus insularis

(2012) Drion G. Boucias et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies

(2012) Anna Klindworth et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

(2012) Y. Kikuchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gut symbiotic bacteria in the cabbage bugs Eurydema rugosa and Eurydema dominulus (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

(2011) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Caught in the act: Rapid, symbiont-driven evolution

(2011) Jennifer A. White   BIOESSAYS

Lessons from Studying Insect Symbioses

(2011) Angela E. Douglas   Cell Host & Microbe

An ancient but promiscuous host–symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

Error-correcting barcoded primers for pyrosequencing hundreds of samples in multiplex

(2008) Micah Hamady et al.   NATURE METHODS