Intraspecific variation in immune gene expression and heritable symbiont density

Intraspecific variation in symbiont density in an insect–microbe symbiosis

(2021) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Coordination of host and symbiont gene expression reveals a metabolic tug-of-war between aphids and Buchnera

(2020) Thomas E. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low Spontaneous Mutation Rate and Pleistocene Radiation of Pea Aphids

(2020) Varvara Fazalova et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Immune genes are hotspots of shared positive selection across birds and mammals

(2019) Allison J Shultz et al.   eLife

Induction of RNAi Core Machinery’s Gene Expression by Exogenous dsRNA and the Effects of Pre-exposure to dsRNA on the Gene Silencing Efficiency in the Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)

(2019) Chao Ye et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

The hemolymph microbiome of insects

(2019) Frances Blow et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

A Laterally Transferred Viral Gene Modifies Aphid Wing Plasticity

(2019) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Nonrandom associations of maternally transmitted symbionts in insects: The roles of drift versus biased cotransmission and selection

(2019) Hugo Mathé‐Hubert et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Host relatedness influences the composition of aphid microbiomes

(2019) Ailsa H. C. McLean et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Hemocytin facilitates host immune responses against Nosema bombycis

(2019) Wenjia Ni et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

The Maternal Effect Gene Wds Controls Wolbachia Titer in Nasonia

(2018) Lisa J. Funkhouser-Jones et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Within host selection for faster replicating bacterial symbionts

(2018) Ewa Chrostek et al.   PLoS One

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

(2018) Justin Maire et al.   Microbiome

Phenoloxidases Are Required for the Pea Aphid Defense against Bacterial and Fungal Infection

(2018) Lu Xu et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Genotype specificity among hosts, pathogens, and beneficial microbes influences the strength of symbiont-mediated protection

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   EVOLUTION

Activation of Aedes aegypti prophenoloxidase-3 and its role in the immune response against entomopathogenic fungi

(2017) Y. Wang et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The bacterium Wolbachia exploits host innate immunity to establish a symbiotic relationship with the dengue vector mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2017) Xiaoling Pan et al.   ISME Journal

Life-history strategy determines constraints on immune function

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field

(2016) Jan Hrček et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The potential for adaptive maintenance of diversity in insect antimicrobial peptides

(2016) Robert L. Unckless et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Intraspecific genetic variation in hosts affects regulation of obligate heritable symbionts

(2016) Rebecca A. Chong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insect life history and the evolution of bacterial mutualism

(2015) Lee M. Henry et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2015) Julien Martinez et al.   PLoS Pathogens

HTSeq--a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data

(2014) S. Anders et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Immunohistochemical Analysis of the Role of Hemocytin in Nodule Formation in the Larvae of the Silkworm,Bombyx mori

(2014) Ikuyo Arai et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Prophenoloxidase Activation Is Required for Survival to Microbial Infections in Drosophila

(2014) Olivier Binggeli et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

(2013) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

(2013) Lee M. Henry et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Protection against a fungal pathogen conferred by the aphid facultative endosymbiontsRickettsiaandSpiroplasmais expressed in multiple host genotypes and species and is not influenced by co-infection with another symbiont

(2013) P. Łukasik et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

(2013) Jacob A. Russell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

(2013) Daehwan Kim et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The arthropod, but not the vertebrate host or its environment, dictates bacterial community composition of fleas and ticks

(2012) Hadas Hawlena et al.   ISME Journal

The Cellular Immune Response of the Pea Aphid to Foreign Intrusion and Symbiotic Challenge

(2012) Antonin Schmitz et al.   PLoS One

Spiroplasma and host immunity: activation of humoral immune responses increases endosymbiont load and susceptibility to certain Gram-negative bacterial pathogens in Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) Jeremy K. Herren et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Phenoloxidase: a key component of the insect immune system

(2011) Isaac González-Santoyo et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE AND SECONDARY SYMBIONTS IN HOST-ASSOCIATED POPULATIONS OF THE PEA APHID COMPLEX

(2011) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

Characterisation of immune responses in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2011) Alice M. Laughton et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities

(2011) J. Ferrari et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

(2011) James Angus Chandler et al.   PLoS Genetics

Interspecific transmission of a male-killing bacterium on an ecological timescale

(2010) Olivier Duron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Secretome of fungus-infected aphids documents high pathogen activity and weak host response

(2010) Morten N. Grell et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010)   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

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

A continuum of genetic divergence from sympatric host races to species in the pea aphid complex

(2009) J. Peccoud 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

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Immunity in a variable world

(2008) B. P Lazzaro et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The proPO-system: pros and cons for its role in invertebrate immunity

(2008) Lage Cerenius et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY