The Gut Microbiota of the Insect Infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) for the Light of Ecology and Evolution

A newly recorded Rickettsia of the Torix group is a recent intruder and an endosymbiont in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci

(2020) Hua‐Ling Wang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Engineering bacterial symbionts of nematodes improves biocontrol potential of the western corn rootworm

(2020) Ricardo A. R. Machado et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Engineered symbionts activate honey bee immunity and limit pathogens

(2020) Sean P. Leonard et al.   SCIENCE

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

Reduced Genome of the Gut Symbiotic Bacterium “Candidatus Benitsuchiphilus tojoi” Provides Insight Into Its Possible Roles in Ecology and Adaptation of the Host Insect

(2020) Shakhinur Islam Mondal et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Relevance of microbial symbiosis to insect behavior

(2020) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects

(2020) Hongjie Li et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Stable Introduction of Plant-Virus-Inhibiting Wolbachia into Planthoppers for Rice Protection

(2020) Jun-Tao Gong et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

New insights into the transovarial transmission of the symbiont Rickettsia in whiteflies

(2020) Hongwei Shan et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Cellular Localization of Two Rickettsia Symbionts in the Digestive System and within the Ovaries of the Mirid Bug, Macrolophous pygmaeus

(2020) Maria Dally et al.   Insects

The Role of Bacterial Symbionts in Triatomines: An Evolutionary Perspective

(2020) Nicolas Salcedo-Porras et al.   Microorganisms

Disruption of Host-Symbiont Associations for the Symbiotic Control and Management of Pentatomid Agricultural Pests—A Review

(2020) Elena Gonella et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

Diversity and evolution of bacterial symbionts in the gut symbiotic organ of jewel stinkbugs (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae)

(2019) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Morphogenesis and development of midgut symbiotic organ of the stinkbug Plautia stali (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

(2019) Sayumi Oishi et al.   Zoological Letters

Versatile and Dynamic Symbioses Between Insects and Burkholderia Bacteria

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

Burkholderia gut symbiont modulates titer of specific juvenile hormone in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris

(2019) Junbeom Lee et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Wolbachia supplement biotin and riboflavin to enhance reproduction in planthoppers

(2019) Jia-Fei Ju et al.   ISME Journal

Challenging battles of plants with phloem-feeding insects and prokaryotic pathogens

(2019) Yanjuan Jiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Strategies for Enhanced Crop Resistance to Insect Pests

(2018) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Plant Biology

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

(2018) Hideomi Itoh et al.   ISME Journal

The Drosophila model for microbiome research

(2018) Angela E. Douglas   LAB ANIMAL

Detoxifying symbiosis: microbe-mediated detoxification of phytotoxins and pesticides in insects

(2018) Hideomi Itoh et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

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

Evolution of host support for two ancient bacterial symbionts with differentially degraded genomes in a leafhopper host

(2018) Meng Mao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Unforeseen swimming and gliding mode of an insect gut symbiont, Burkholderia sp. RPE64, with wrapping of the flagella around its cell body

(2017) Yoshiaki Kinosita et al.   ISME Journal

Hype or opportunity? Using microbial symbionts in novel strategies for insect pest control

(2017) Arinder K. Arora et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The potential global distribution of the brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys, a critical threat to plant biosecurity

(2017) Darren J. Kriticos et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

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

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

(2017) Kazutaka Takeshita et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Evidence for Ancient and Persistent Environmental Symbiont Reacquisition in Largidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

(2016) Eric Robert Lucien Gordon et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fungal and bacterial endosymbionts of eared leafhoppers of the subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae)

(2016) Takanori Nishino et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

The symbiotic role of O-antigen of Burkholderia symbiont in association with host Riptortus pedestris

(2016) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Understanding regulation of the host-mediated gut symbiont population and the symbiont-mediated host immunity in the Riptortus-Burkholderia symbiosis system

(2016) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

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

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

Gut microbial communities of social bees

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

Cellular and molecular remodelling of a host cell for vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts

(2016) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Obligate bacterial mutualists evolving from environmental bacteria in natural insect populations

(2016) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   Nature Microbiology

Female-Specific Specialization of a Posterior End Region of the Midgut Symbiotic Organ in Plautia splendens and Allied Stinkbugs

(2015) Toshinari Hayashi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont transmission entails the risk of parasite infection

(2015) Hassan Salem et al.   Biology Letters

Burkholderia gut symbionts enhance the innate immunity of host Riptortus pedestris

(2015) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Metabolic Coevolution in the Bacterial Symbiosis of Whiteflies and Related Plant Sap-Feeding Insects

(2015) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Habitat Visualization and Genomic Analysis of “Candidatus Pantoea carbekii,” the Primary Symbiont of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

(2015) Laura J. Kenyon et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2015) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2015) Kazutaka Takeshita et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Insecticide applications to soil contribute to the development ofBurkholderiamediating insecticide resistance in stinkbugs

(2015) Kanako Tago et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

The Tiniest Tiny Genomes

(2014) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

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

SYMBIOTIC FACTORS INBurkholderiaESSENTIAL FOR ESTABLISHING AN ASSOCIATION WITH THE BEAN BUG,Riptortus pedestris

(2014) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

Characterization of the symbiont Rickettsia in the mirid bug Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) (Heteroptera: Miridae)

(2014) A. Caspi-Fluger et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Symbiont-Supplemented Maternal Investment Underpinning Host’s Ecological Adaptation

(2014) Nahomi Kaiwa et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Crypt-Dwelling Primary Bacterial Symbiont of the Polyphagous Pentatomid PestHalyomorpha halys(Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

(2014) Raman Bansal et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

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

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

Vitamin supplementation by gut symbionts ensures metabolic homeostasis in an insect host

(2014) H. Salem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Efficient Colonization of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris by an Environmentally Transmitted Burkholderia Symbiont

(2013) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Specific Midgut Region Controlling the Symbiont Population in an Insect-Microbe Gut Symbiotic Association

(2013) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Molting-associated suppression of symbiont population and up-regulation of antimicrobial activity in the midgut symbiotic organ of the Riptortus–Burkholderia symbiosis

(2013) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

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

Purine biosynthesis-deficient Burkholderia mutants are incapable of symbiotic accommodation in the stinkbug

(2013) Jiyeun Kate Kim et al.   ISME Journal

Live imaging of symbiosis: spatiotemporal infection dynamics of a GFP-labelledBurkholderiasymbiont in the bean bugRiptortus pedestris

(2013) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Population genomics of a symbiont in the early stages of a pest invasion

(2013) Amanda M. V. Brown et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The bacterial communities in plant phloem-sap-feeding insects

(2013) Xiangfeng Jing et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diverse Strategies for Vertical Symbiont Transmission among Subsocial Stinkbugs

(2013) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   PLoS One

Polyester synthesis genes associated with stress resistance are involved in an insect-bacterium symbiosis

(2013) J. K. Kim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Transovarial Transmission of Rickettsia spp. and Organ-Specific Infection of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci

(2012) Marina Brumin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Two ancient bacterial endosymbionts have coevolved with the planthoppers (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea)

(2012) Julie M Urban et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

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

Cellular mechanism for selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte-embryo interface

(2012) R. Koga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mothers never miss the moment: a fine-tuned mechanism for vertical symbiont transmission in a subsocial insect

(2011) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Emerging Virus Diseases Transmitted by Whiteflies

(2011) Jesús Navas-Castillo et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Characterization of an Obligate Intracellular Bacterium in the Midgut Epithelium of the Bulrush Bug Chilacis typhae (Heteroptera, Lygaeidae, Artheneinae)

(2011) Stefan Martin Kuechler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Specific Developmental Window for Establishment of an Insect-Microbe Gut Symbiosis

(2011) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

Bacterial Symbionts of the Giant Jewel StinkbugEucorysses grandis(Hemiptera: Scutelleridae)

(2011) Nahomi Kaiwa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Phylogenetic Position and Peculiar Genetic Traits of a Midgut Bacterial Symbiont of the Stinkbug Parastrachia japonensis

(2010) T. Hosokawa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Primary Gut Symbiont and Secondary, Sodalis-Allied Symbiont of the Scutellerid Stinkbug Cantao ocellatus

(2010) N. Kaiwa et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Co-infection and localization of secondary symbionts in two whitefly species

(2010) Marisa Skaljac 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

Functional Convergence in Reduced Genomes of Bacterial Symbionts Spanning 200 My of Evolution

(2010) John P. McCutcheon et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

(2009) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

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

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Role of symbiotic gut bacteria in the development ofAcrosternum hilareandMurgantia histrionica

(2009) Simone S. Prado et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

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

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Multiple symbiosis in the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): Details of transovarial transmission of Cardinium sp. and yeast-like endosymbionts

(2008) L. Sacchi et al.   TISSUE & CELL

Symbiont acquisition alters behaviour of stinkbug nymphs

(2007) T. Hosokawa et al.   Biology Letters