Evolutionary Dynamics of Host Organs for Microbial Symbiosis in Tortoise Leaf Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae)

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Inhibition of a nutritional endosymbiont by glyphosate abolishes mutualistic benefit on cuticle synthesis in Oryzaephilus surinamensis

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Microorganisms in the reproductive tissues of arthropods

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The genome sequence of the grape phylloxera provides insights into the evolution, adaptation, and invasion routes of an iconic pest

(2020) Claude Rispe et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles

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Housing microbial symbionts: evolutionary origins and diversification of symbiotic organs in animals

(2020) Angela E. Douglas   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial and morphological reorganization of endosymbiosis during metamorphosis accommodates adult metabolic requirements in a weevil

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Bacteriocytes and Blattabacterium Endosymbionts of the German Cockroach Blattella germanica, the Forest Cockroach Blattella nipponica, and Other Cockroach Species

(2020) Tomohito Noda et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Bacterial symbionts support larval sap feeding and adult folivory in (semi-)aquatic reed beetles

(2020) Frank Reis et al.   Nature Communications

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

Origin and elaboration of a major evolutionary transition in individuality

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RAxML-NG: a fast, scalable and user-friendly tool for maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference

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The Life of an Insect Endosymbiont from the Cradle to the Grave

(2019) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Developmental symbiosis facilitates the multiple origins of herbivory

(2019) Scott F. Gilbert   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

ModelTest-NG: A New and Scalable Tool for the Selection of DNA and Protein Evolutionary Models

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Repeated evolution of bacteriocytes in lygaeoid stinkbugs

(2019) Stefan Martin Kuechler et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

A Novel, Extremely Elongated, and Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont Supports Cuticle Formation of a Grain Pest Beetle

(2017) Bin Hirota et al.   mBio

Novel bacteriocyte-associated pleomorphic symbiont of the grain pest beetle Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)

(2017) Genta Okude et al.   Zoological Letters

Recurrent evolution of gut symbiotic bacteria in pentatomid stinkbugs

(2016) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   Zoological Letters

Nardonella endosymbionts of Japanese pest and non-pest weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

(2015) Takahiro Hosokawa et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms

(2015) Laura V. Flórez et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents

(2015) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Ultrabithoraxis essential for bacteriocyte development

(2015) Yu Matsuura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiotic bacteria enable olive fly larvae to overcome host defences

(2015) Michael Ben-Yosef et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Insects Recycle Endosymbionts when the Benefit Is Over

(2014) Aurélien Vigneron et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Identification and characterization of plant cell wall degrading enzymes from three glycoside hydrolase families in the cerambycid beetle Apriona japonica

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Horizontal gene transfer and functional diversification of plant cell wall degrading polygalacturonases: Key events in the evolution of herbivory in beetles

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Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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Evolutionary replacement of obligate symbionts in an ancient and diverse insect lineage

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Defensive symbiosis in the real world - advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

(2013) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Diversification of endosymbiosis: replacements, co-speciation and promiscuity of bacteriocyte symbionts in weevils

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

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Tissue distribution and transmission routes for the tsetse fly endosymbionts

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

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The evolution of dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms in insects

(2011) J. A. Lynch et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Evolution of symbiotic organs and endosymbionts in lygaeid stinkbugs

(2011) Yu Matsuura et al.   ISME Journal

Kakusan4 and Aminosan: two programs for comparing nonpartitioned, proportional and separate models for combined molecular phylogenetic analyses of multilocus sequence data

(2011) AKIFUMI S. TANABE   Molecular Ecology Resources

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

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

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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

The Olive Fly Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola," Switches from an Intracellular Existence to an Extracellular Existence during Host Insect Development

(2009) A. M. Estes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quenching autofluorescence of insect tissues for in situ detection of endosymbionts

(2009) Ryuichi Koga et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Autophagy, Not Apoptosis, Is Essential for Midgut Cell Death in Drosophila

(2009) Donna Denton et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Infection Dynamics of Coexisting Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria in the Nested Endosymbiotic System of Mealybugs

(2008) M. Kono et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Toll-like receptors — taking an evolutionary approach

(2008) François Leulier et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY