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CosmosID Brings Biology into the 21st Century

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Insights into the bacterial symbiont diversity in spiders

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

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The functional microbiome of arthropods

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Gilliamella intestini sp. nov., Gilliamella bombicola sp. nov., Gilliamella bombi sp. nov. and Gilliamella mensalis sp. nov.: Four novel Gilliamella species isolated from the bumblebee gut

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Evolutionary shifts in gene expression decoupled from gene duplication across functionally distinct spider silk glands

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Midgut Bacterial Diversity of Wild Populations of Phlebotomus (P.) papatasi, the Vector of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) in Turkey

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

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Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees

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Speciation by Symbiosis: the Microbiome and Behavior

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Eukaryotic association module in phage WO genomes from Wolbachia

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

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The Spider Venom Peptide Lycosin-II Has Potent Antimicrobial Activity against Clinically Isolated Bacteria

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VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

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Open-Source Sequence Clustering Methods Improve the State Of the Art

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The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation

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Spiroplasma – an emerging arthropod-borne pathogen?

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Microbial Community Composition and Diversity via 16S rRNA Gene Amplicons: Evaluating the Illumina Platform

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Endosymbiont Dominated Bacterial Communities in a Dwarf Spider

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Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Multi-tissue transcriptomics of the black widow spider reveals expansions, co-options, and functional processes of the silk gland gene toolkit

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Dramatic expansion of the black widow toxin arsenal uncovered by multi-tissue transcriptomics and venom proteomics

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Sex ratio bias caused by endosymbiont infection in the dwarf spiderOedothorax retusus

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Isolation and identification of culturable bacteria from wild Anopheles culicifacies, a first step in a paratransgenesis approach

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Genomics and host specialization of honey bee and bumble bee gut symbionts

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Molecular Evolution of α-Latrotoxin, the Exceptionally Potent Vertebrate Neurotoxin in Black Widow Spider Venom

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

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Specificity and stability of the Acromyrmex -Pseudonocardia symbiosis

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The microbiome explored: recent insights and future challenges

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

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EMPeror: a tool for visualizing high-throughput microbial community data

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Metabolic characteristics of the species Variovorax paradoxus

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Isolation and Identification of Cellulolytic Bacteria from the Gut of Holotrichia parallela Larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

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Cultivation and characterization of the gut symbionts of honey bees and bumble bees: description of Snodgrassella alvi gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Neisseriaceae of the Betaproteobacteria, and Gilliamella apicola gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of Orbaceae fam. nov., Orbales ord. nov., a sister taxon to the order 'Enterobacteriales' of the Gammaproteobacteria

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Exploring the effect of the Cardinium endosymbiont on spiders

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jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

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Distinctive Gut Microbiota of Honey Bees Assessed Using Deep Sampling from Individual Worker Bees

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Barcoded Primers Used in Multiplex Amplicon Pyrosequencing Bias Amplification

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Variance adjusted weighted UniFrac: a powerful beta diversity measure for comparing communities based on phylogeny

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Spiders do not escape reproductive manipulations by Wolbachia

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THE ROLES OF HOST EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS (GENUS: NASONIA) AND DEVELOPMENT IN STRUCTURING MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES

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Impact of training sets on classification of high-throughput bacterial 16s rRNA gene surveys

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Wolbachia Strains Typing in Different Geographic Population Spider, Hylyphantes Graminicola (Linyphiidae)

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

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The NIH Human Microbiome Project

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Pervasive associations between Cybaeus spiders and the bacterial symbiont Cardinium

(2009) Steve J. Perlman et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachia do not walk alone

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High incidence of the maternally inherited bacterium Cardinium in spiders

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