The Role of Bacterial Symbionts in Triatomines: An Evolutionary Perspective

Where Are We With Human Lice? A Review of the Current State of Knowledge

(2020) Nadia Amanzougaghene et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Phylogenomic analysis of 589 metagenome-assembled genomes encompassing all major prokaryotic lineages from the gut of higher termites

(2020) Vincent Hervé et al.   PeerJ

Comparison of the Bacterial Gut Microbiome of North American Triatoma spp. With and Without Trypanosoma cruzi

(2020) Allison E. Mann et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Coxiella-Like Endosymbiont of Rhipicephalus sanguineus Is Required for Physiological Processes During Ontogeny

(2020) Michael Ben-Yosef et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiome of the Queensland Fruit Fly through Metamorphosis

(2020) Rajib Majumder et al.   Microorganisms

Evidence in Microbiome Science: Standards for the Field (and Laboratory)

(2020) David N Fredricks   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Interactions among Triatoma sanguisuga blood feeding sources, gut microbiota and Trypanosoma cruzi diversity in southern Louisiana

(2020) Eric Dumonteil et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity and Composition of the Gut Microbiota in the Developmental Stages of the Dung Beetle Copris incertus Say (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

(2020) Pablo Suárez-Moo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

In vitro Trypanocidal Activity, Genomic Analysis of Isolates, and in vivo Transcription of Type VI Secretion System of Serratia marcescens Belonging to the Microbiota of Rhodnius prolixus Digestive Tract

(2019) Fabio Faria da Mota et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Weevilpgrp-lbprevents endosymbiont TCT dissemination and chronic host systemic immune activation

(2019) Justin Maire et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Not all animals need a microbiome

(2019) Tobin J Hammer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

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

Hindgut microbiota in laboratory-reared and wild Triatoma infestans

(2019) Andreea Waltmann et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Advantageous Feeding on Different Blood Meal Sources by the Chagas Disease Vector Triatoma barberi (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

(2019) J A Martínez-Ibarra et al.   JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The Tsetse Fly Displays an Attenuated Immune Response to Its Secondary Symbiont, Sodalis glossinidius

(2019) Katrien Trappeniers et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Links between metamorphosis and symbiosis in holometabolous insects

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

Immune gene regulation in the gut during metamorphosis in a holo- versus a hemimetabolous insect

(2019) Paul R. Johnston et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Complete metamorphosis of insects

(2019) Jens Rolff et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Aedes spp. and Their Microbiota: A Review

(2019) Francesca Scolari et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Repeated evolution of bacteriocytes in lygaeoid stinkbugs

(2019) Stefan Martin Kuechler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Angiosperm to Gymnosperm host‐plant switch entails shifts in microbiota of the Welwitschia bug, Probergrothius angolensis (Distant, 1902)

(2019) Adam Javier Martinez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Regional biogeography of microbiota composition in the Chagas disease vector Rhodnius pallescens

(2019) Troy J. Kieran et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Obligate bacterial endosymbionts limit thermal tolerance of insect host species

(2019) Bo Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing reveals dominance of Actinobacteria in Rhodnius pallescens compared to Triatoma maculata midgut microbiota in natural populations of vector insects from Colombia

(2018) Luisa M. Montoya-Porras et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Bacterial symbionts in human blood-feeding arthropods: Patterns, general mechanisms and effects of global ecological changes

(2018) J. Guillermo Jiménez-Cortés et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Revisiting habitat and lifestyle transitions in Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera): insights from a combined morphological and molecular phylogeny

(2018) Christiane Weirauch et al.   CLADISTICS

Rampant Host Switching Shaped the Termite Gut Microbiome

(2018) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolutionary loss and replacement of Buchnera, the obligate endosymbiont of aphids

(2018) Rebecca A. Chong et al.   ISME Journal

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives

(2018) Bosheng Chen et al.   ISME Journal

Chagas disease

(2018) José A Pérez-Molina et al.   LANCET

The cotton stainer's gut microbiota suppresses infection of a co-transmitted trypanosomatid parasite

(2018) Thomas Ogao Onchuru et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Effects of antibiotic treatment on the fecundity of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides ticks

(2018) Lan-Hua Li et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Detailed ecological associations of triatomines revealed by metabarcoding and next-generation sequencing: implications for triatomine behavior and Trypanosoma cruzi transmission cycles

(2018) Eric Dumonteil et al.   Scientific Reports

The effect of gut microbiota elimination in Drosophila melanogaster : A how-to guide for host-microbiota studies

(2018) Chloe Heys et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Microbiomes of North American Triatominae: The Grounds for Chagas Disease Epidemiology

(2018) Sonia M. Rodríguez-Ruano et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Transmission of mutualistic bacteria in social and gregarious insects

(2018) Thomas Ogao Onchuru et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

An IMD-like pathway mediates both endosymbiont control and host immunity in the cereal weevil Sitophilus spp.

(2018) Justin Maire et al.   Microbiome

The hologenome concept of evolution after 10 years

(2018) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   Microbiome

The mosquito holobiont: fresh insight into mosquito-microbiota interactions

(2018) Morgane Guégan et al.   Microbiome

Functional metagenomics reveals abundant polysaccharide-degrading gene clusters and cellobiose utilization pathways within gut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite

(2018) Ning Liu et al.   ISME Journal

Field-collected Triatoma sordida from central Brazil display high microbiota diversity that varies with regard to developmental stage and intestinal segmentation

(2018) Joana L. Oliveira et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Bacterial community composition in the salivary glands of triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

(2018) Michele Souza Lima et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

To B or Not to B: Comparative Genomics Suggests Arsenophonus as a Source of B Vitamins in Whiteflies

(2018) Diego Santos-Garcia et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The NF-κB Inhibitor, IMD-0354, Affects Immune Gene Expression, Bacterial Microbiota and Trypanosoma cruzi Infection in Rhodnius prolixus Midgut

(2018) Cecilia S. Vieira et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

What can a weevil teach a fly, and reciprocally? Interaction of host immune systems with endosymbionts in Glossina and Sitophilus

(2018) Anna Zaidman-Rémy et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Honey bees as models for gut microbiota research

(2018) Hao Zheng et al.   LAB ANIMAL

Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites

(2018) Gaku Tokuda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects

(2018) Kevin P. Johnson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Uncovering vector, parasite, blood meal and microbiome patterns from mixed-DNA specimens of the Chagas disease vector Triatoma dimidiata

(2018) Lucia C. Orantes et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Ancient bacterial endosymbionts of insects: Genomes as sources of insight and springboards for inquiry

(2017) Jennifer J. Wernegreen   EXPERIMENTAL CELL RESEARCH

Comparative Genomics of the Dual-Obligate Symbionts from the Treehopper, Entylia carinata (Hemiptera: Membracidae), Provide Insight into the Origins and Evolution of an Ancient Symbiosis

(2017) Meng Mao et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Evidence for a conserved microbiota across the different developmental stages of Plodia interpunctella

(2017) Valeria Mereghetti et al.   Insect Science

Cooperative Metabolism in a Three-Partner Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis Revealed by Metabolic Modeling

(2017) Nana Y. D. Ankrah et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Primates, Lice and Bacteria: Speciation and Genome Evolution in the Symbionts of Hominid Lice

(2017) Bret M. Boyd et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mitochondrial phylogenomics of Hemiptera reveals adaptive innovations driving the diversification of true bugs

(2017) Hu Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia : transcriptomic and metabolomic landscapes reveal highly integrated physiological networks

(2017) XiaoLi Bing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Driving mosquito refractoriness toPlasmodium falciparumwith engineered symbiotic bacteria

(2017) Sibao Wang et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A Coxiella mutualist symbiont is essential to the development of Rhipicephalus microplus

(2017) Melina Garcia Guizzo et al.   Scientific Reports

Dissecting genome reduction and trait loss in insect endosymbionts

(2016) Amparo Latorre et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Bacteria belonging to the genus Burkholderia are obligatory symbionts of the eriococcids Acanthococcus aceris Signoret, 1875 and Gossyparia spuria (Modeer, 1778) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coccoidea)

(2016) Katarzyna Michalik et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

A new antimicrobial protein from the anterior midgut of Triatoma infestans mediates Trypanosoma cruzi establishment by controlling the microbiota

(2016) Diego S. Buarque et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Amino acids trigger down-regulation of superoxide via TORC pathway in the midgut of Rhodnius prolixus

(2016) A. C. P. Gandara et al.   BIOSCIENCE REPORTS

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

Heritable symbionts in a world of varying temperature

(2016) C Corbin et al.   HEREDITY

Condition-dependent alteration of cellular immunity by secondary symbionts in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2016) Alice M. Laughton et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Buchnera has changed flatmate but the repeated replacement of co-obligate symbionts is not associated with the ecological expansions of their aphid hosts

(2016) A. S. Meseguer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mosquitoes host communities of bacteria that are essential for development but vary greatly between local habitats

(2016) Kerri L. Coon et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gut microbial communities of social bees

(2016) Waldan K. Kwong et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Triatomine bugs, their microbiota and Trypanosoma cruzi: asymmetric responses of bacteria to an infected blood meal

(2016) Sebastián Díaz et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Impact of Trypanosoma cruzi on antimicrobial peptide gene expression and activity in the fat body and midgut of Rhodnius prolixus

(2016) CS Vieira et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Grandeur Alliances: Symbiont Metabolic Integration and Obligate Arthropod Hematophagy

(2016) Rita V.M. Rio et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Over Six Thousand Trypanosoma cruzi Strains Classified into Discrete Typing Units (DTUs): Attempt at an Inventory

(2016) Simone Frédérique Brenière et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Obligate bacterial mutualists evolving from environmental bacteria in natural insect populations

(2016) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   Nature Microbiology

Rhodnius prolixus Life History Outcomes Differ when Infected with Different Trypanosoma cruzi I Strains

(2015) Jennifer K. Peterson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

Phylogenetic divergences of the true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the aquatic lineages: the last piece of the aquatic insect jigsaw originated in the Late Permian/Early Triassic

(2015) Yan-hui Wang et al.   CLADISTICS

Evolutionary transition in symbiotic syndromes enabled diversification of phytophagous insects on an imbalanced diet

(2015) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   ISME Journal

Characterization of the microbiota in the guts of Triatoma brasiliensis and Triatoma pseudomaculata infected by Trypanosoma cruzi in natural conditions using culture independent methods

(2015) Marcia Gumiel et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Rhodnius prolixus interaction with Trypanosoma rangeli: modulation of the immune system and microbiota population

(2015) Cecilia S Vieira et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Genome ofRhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

(2015) Rafael D. Mesquita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Experimental replacement of an obligate insect symbiont

(2015) Nancy A. Moran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

(2015) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Signatures of host/symbiont genome coevolution in insect nutritional endosymbioses

(2015) Alex C. C. Wilson 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

Riboflavin Provisioning Underlies Wolbachia's Fitness Contribution to Its Insect Host

(2015) M. Moriyama et al.   mBio

Pyrosequencing reveals a shift in symbiotic bacteria populations across life stages of Bactrocera dorsalis

(2015) Awawing A. Andongma et al.   Scientific Reports

Genetically Modifying the Insect Gut Microbiota to Control Chagas Disease Vectors through Systemic RNAi

(2015) Mabel L. Taracena et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Host and Symbiont Jointly Control Gut Microbiota during Complete Metamorphosis

(2015) Paul R. Johnston et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Should Symbionts Be Nice or Selfish? Antiviral Effects of Wolbachia Are Costly but Reproductive Parasitism Is Not

(2015) Julien Martinez et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Analysis of Multiple Tsetse Fly Populations in Uganda Reveals Limited Diversity and Species-Specific Gut Microbiota

(2014) Emre Aksoy et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

(2014) J. Elijah Powell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insect Gut Bacterial Diversity Determined by Environmental Habitat, Diet, Developmental Stage, and Phylogeny of Host

(2014) Ji-Hyun Yun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont-Supplemented Maternal Investment Underpinning Host’s Ecological Adaptation

(2014) Nahomi Kaiwa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Endosymbiotic microorganisms of aphids (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphidoidea): Ultrastructure, distribution and transovarial transmission

(2014) Anna MICHALIK et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

Swapping symbionts in spittlebugs: evolutionary replacement of a reduced genome symbiont

(2014) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ISME Journal

The Molecular Basis of Bacterial–Insect Symbiosis

(2014) Angela E. Douglas   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Parallel Histories of Horizontal Gene Transfer Facilitated Extreme Reduction of Endosymbiont Genomes in Sap-Feeding Insects

(2014) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Humoral responses in Rhodnius prolixus: bacterial feeding induces differential patterns of antibacterial activity and enhances mRNA levels of antimicrobial peptides in the midgut

(2014) Cecilia Vieira et al.   Parasites & Vectors

The Importance of Gut Symbionts in the Development of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål)

(2014) Christopher M. Taylor et al.   PLoS One

Metamorphosis of a Butterfly-Associated Bacterial Community

(2014) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptomic Immune Response of the Cotton Stainer Dysdercus fasciatus to Experimental Elimination of Vitamin-Supplementing Intestinal Symbionts

(2014) Eugen Bauer et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism

(2014) N. Nikoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Differential Genome Evolution Between Companion Symbionts in an Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis

(2014) G. M. Bennett et al.   mBio

An Insight into the Transcriptome of the Digestive Tract of the Bloodsucking Bug, Rhodnius prolixus

(2014) José M. C. Ribeiro et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Symbiont polyphyly, co-evolution, and necessity in pentatomid stinkbugs from Costa Rica

(2014) Kalia S. I. Bistolas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

Defensive Bacteriome Symbiont with a Drastically Reduced Genome

(2013) Atsushi Nakabachi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Origins and Evolution of Ancient Dual Symbioses in a Phloem-Feeding Insect

(2013) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The inconstant gut microbiota of Drosophila species revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis

(2013) Adam C-N Wong et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of blood meal source on food resource use and reproduction inTriatoma patagonicaDel Ponte (Hemiptera, Reduviidae)

(2013) Julieta Nattero et al.   JOURNAL OF VECTOR ECOLOGY

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

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

Microbial symbiosis and the control of vector-borne pathogens in tsetse flies, human lice, and triatomine bugs

(2013) Davide Sassera et al.   Pathogens and Global Health

Tsetse fly microbiota: form and function

(2013) Jingwen Wang et al.   Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Diversity of Symbiotic Organs and Bacterial Endosymbionts of Lygaeoid Bugs of the Families Blissidae and Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea)

(2012) Stefan Martin Kuechler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies

(2012) D. B. Sloan et al.   Biology Letters

Taxonomy of lice and their endosymbiotic bacteria in the post-genomic era

(2012) B.M. Boyd et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation

(2012) Jennifer J Wernegreen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Actinobacteria as essential symbionts in firebugs and cotton stainers (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Hassan Salem et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Evolutionary relationships of flavobacterial and enterobacterial endosymbionts with their scale insect hosts (Hemiptera: Coccoidea)

(2012) M. Rosenblueth et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

(2012) D. R. Colman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs,Pyrrhocoris apterus(Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Trypanosoma cruzi Immune Response Modulation Decreases Microbiota in Rhodnius prolixus Gut and Is Crucial for Parasite Survival and Development

(2012) Daniele P. Castro et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary History of Assassin Bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Reduviidae): Insights from Divergence Dating and Ancestral State Reconstruction

(2012) Wei Song Hwang et al.   PLoS One

Comparative Evaluation of the Gut Microbiota Associated with the Below- and Above-Ground Life Stages (Larvae and Beetles) of the Forest Cockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani

(2012) Erika Arias-Cordero et al.   PLoS One

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

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

Insight into the Transmission Biology and Species-Specific Functional Capabilities of Tsetse (Diptera: Glossinidae) Obligate Symbiont Wigglesworthia

(2012) R. V. M. Rio et al.   mBio

Cultivation-Independent Methods Reveal Differences among Bacterial Gut Microbiota in Triatomine Vectors of Chagas Disease

(2012) Fabio Faria da Mota et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Endosymbiont Tolerance and Control within Insect Hosts

(2012) Carolin Ratzka et al.   Insects

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

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

Obligate association with gut bacterial symbiont in Japanese populations of the southern green stinkbug Nezara viridula (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae)

(2011) Akiyo Tada et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Toward the functional analysis of uncultivable, symbiotic microorganisms in the termite gut

(2011) Yuichi Hongoh   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Reductive Evolution of Bacterial Genome in Insect Gut Environment

(2011) Naruo Nikoh et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Evolution of symbiotic organs and endosymbionts in lygaeid stinkbugs

(2011) Yu Matsuura et al.   ISME Journal

Symbiont of the stink bug Plautia stali synthesizes rough-type lipopolysaccharide

(2011) Hideaki Kobayashi et al.   MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Aphid genome expression reveals host-symbiont cooperation in the production of amino acids

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated

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

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

Serratia symbiotica from the Aphid Cinara cedri: A Missing Link from Facultative to Obligate Insect Endosymbiont

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   PLoS Genetics

Chromosome Stability and Gene Loss in Cockroach Endosymbionts

(2010) Z. L. Sabree et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evolutionary Relationships among Primary Endosymbionts of the Mealybug Subfamily Phenacoccinae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae)

(2010) M. E. Gruwell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriocyte dynamics during development of a holometabolous insect, the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2010) Sascha Stoll et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular characterization and localization of  the obligate endosymbiotic bacterium in the birch catkin bug Kleidocerys resedae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae, Ischnorhynchinae)

(2010) Stefan Martin Küchler et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Strategies for culture of ‘unculturable’ bacteria

(2010) Sonia R. Vartoukian et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Interactions between intestinal compounds of triatomines and Trypanosoma cruzi

(2010) Eloi S. Garcia et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Interactions between mutualist Wigglesworthia and tsetse peptidoglycan recognition protein (PGRP-LB) influence trypanosome transmission

(2009) J. Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Convergent evolution of metabolic roles in bacterial co-symbionts of insects

(2009) J. P. McCutcheon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Triatominae–Trypanosoma cruzi/T. rangeli: Vector–parasite interactions

(2008) G.A. Vallejo et al.   ACTA TROPICA

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Evolution of the Secondary Symbiont "Candidatus Serratia symbiotica" in Aphid Species of the Subfamily Lachninae

(2008) A. Lamelas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A New Huanglongbing Species, "Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous," Found To Infect Tomato and Potato, Is Vectored by the Psyllid Bactericera cockerelli (Sulc)

(2008) A. K. Hansen et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

Genetic transformation of a Corynebacterial symbiont from the Chagas disease vector Triatoma infestans

(2008) Ravi V. Durvasula et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

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