First experimental evidence for active farming in ambrosia beetles and strong heredity of garden microbiomes

Bacterial community associated with the ambrosia beetle Platypus cylindrus on declining Quercus suber trees in the Alentejo region of Portugal

(2022) Stefano Nones et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: From experimental design to results

(2022) Leho Tedersoo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Metabarcoding of insect-associated fungal communities: a comparison of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and large-subunit (LSU) rRNA markers

(2022) Angelina Ceballos-Escalera et al.   MycoKeys

Comparative Genomics Reveals Prophylactic and Catabolic Capabilities of Actinobacteria within the Fungus-Farming Termite Symbiosis

(2021) Robert Murphy et al.   mSphere

Nutrient-Poor Breeding Substrates of Ambrosia Beetles Are Enriched With Biologically Important Elements

(2021) Maximilian Lehenberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Habitat Quality Determines Dispersal Decisions and Fitness in a Beetle – Fungus Mutualism

(2021) Jon Andreja Nuotclà et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Bark beetle mycobiome: collaboratively defined research priorities on a widespread insect-fungus symbiosis

(2020) Jiri Hulcr et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Cycloheximide-Producing Streptomyces Associated With Xyleborinus saxesenii and Xyleborus affinis Fungus-Farming Ambrosia Beetles

(2020) Kirk J. Grubbs et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evidence for Succession and Putative Metabolic Roles of Fungi and Bacteria in the Farming Mutualism of the Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus affinis

(2020) L. A. Ibarra-Juarez et al.   mSystems

A selective fungal transport organ (mycangium) maintains coarse phylogenetic congruence between fungus-farming ambrosia beetles and their symbionts

(2019) James Skelton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fungi associated with beetles dispersing from dead wood – Let's take the beetle bus!

(2019) Sebastian Seibold et al.   Fungal Ecology

Ecology and Evolution of Insect–Fungus Mutualisms

(2019) Peter H.W. Biedermann et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Relationships among wood‐boring beetles, fungi, and the decomposition of forest biomass

(2019) James Skelton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Pathogen defence is a potential driver of social evolution in ambrosia beetles

(2019) Jon A. Nuotclà et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Updating the 97% identity threshold for 16S ribosomal RNA OTUs

(2018) Robert C Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Transmission of fungal partners to incipient Cecropia-tree ant colonies

(2018) Veronika E. Mayer et al.   PLoS One

Symbiont selection via alcohol benefits fungus farming by ambrosia beetles

(2018) Christopher M. Ranger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

(2018) Nicole M. Davis et al.   Microbiome

Fungal communities associated with bark and ambrosia beetles trapped at international harbours

(2017) Antonino Malacrinò et al.   Fungal Ecology

Fungus-Farming Termites Selectively Bury Weedy Fungi that Smell Different from Crop Fungi

(2017) Lakshya Katariya et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not Optional

(2017) Gregory B. Gloor et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evolutionary feedbacks between insect sociality and microbial management

(2017) Peter HW Biedermann et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Plantmediated horizontal transmission of Wolbachia between whiteflies

(2016) Shao-Jian Li et al.   ISME Journal

Wolbachiaendosymbionts in haplodiploid and diploid scolytine beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2016) Yuuki Kawasaki et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The ambrosia symbiosis is specific in some species and promiscuous in others: evidence from community pyrosequencing

(2014) Martin Kostovcik et al.   ISME Journal

Convergent Bacterial Microbiotas in the Fungal Agricultural Systems of Insects

(2014) Frank O. Aylward et al.   mBio

Cellulolytic Bacteria Associated with the Gut of Dendroctonus armandi Larvae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2014) Xia Hu et al.   Forests

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen-Fixing and Uricolytic Bacteria Associated with the Gut of Dendroctonus rhizophagus and Dendroctonus valens (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

(2013) Jesús Morales-Jiménez et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

The fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis harbors bacillaene-producing Bacillus sp. that inhibit potentially antagonistic fungi

(2013) Soohyun Um et al.   Scientific Reports

Abundance and dynamics of filamentous fungi in the complex ambrosia gardens of the primitively eusocial beetleXyleborinus saxeseniiRatzeburg (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

(2012) Peter H.W. Biedermann et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Patterns of functional enzyme activity in fungus farming ambrosia beetles

(2012) Henrik H De Fine Licht et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

When Subterranean Termites Challenge the Rules of Fungal Epizootics

(2012) Thomas Chouvenc et al.   PLoS One

Presence and Diversity of Streptomyces in Dendroctonus and Sympatric Bark Beetle Galleries Across North America

(2011) Jiri Hulcr et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Exploring the Potential for Actinobacteria as Defensive Symbionts in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2011) Anna A. Visser et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Larval helpers and age polyethism in ambrosia beetles

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

Characterization of a Defined Cellulolytic and Xylanolytic Bacterial Consortium for Bioprocessing of Cellulose and Hemicelluloses

(2010) Benedict C. Okeke et al.   APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Observations on sex ratio and behavior of males in Xyleborinus saxesenii Ratzeburg (Scolytinae, Coleoptera)

(2010) Peter Biedermann   ZooKeys

Effects of symbiotic bacteria and tree chemistry on the growth and reproduction of bark beetle fungal symbionts

(2009) A.S. Adams et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Fungus Cultivation by Ambrosia Beetles: Behavior and Laboratory Breeding Success in Three Xyleborine Species

(2009) Peter H. W. Biedermann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus Gardens of Leaf-Cutter Ants

(2009) A. A. Pinto-Tomas et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE