Mobile elements create strain‐level variation in the services conferred by an aphid symbiont

Flies co-opt bacterial toxins for use in defense against parasitoids

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Evolution of insect innate immunity through domestication of bacterial toxins

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Cryptic community structure and metabolic interactions among the heritable facultative symbionts of the pea aphid

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Local adaptation to hosts and parasitoids shape Hamiltonella defensa genotypes across aphid species

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An aphid symbiont confers protection against a specialized RNA virus, another increases vulnerability to the same pathogen

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Genetic identity and genotype × genotype interactions between symbionts outweigh species level effects in an insect microbiome

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From Binary Model Systems to the Human Microbiome: Factors That Drive Strain Specificity in Host-Symbiont Associations

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Does getting defensive get you anywhere?—Seasonal balancing selection, temperature, and parasitoids shape real‐world, protective endosymbiont dynamics in the pea aphid

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Defensive Symbionts and the Evolution of Parasitoid Host Specialization

(2021) Christoph Vorburger   Annual Review of Entomology

Evolutionary genomics of APSE: a tailed phage that lysogenically converts the bacterium Hamiltonella defensa into a heritable protective symbiont of aphids

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IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era

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Contact-Dependent Interbacterial Antagonism Mediated by Protein Secretion Machines

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The protector within: Comparative genomics of APSE phages across aphids reveals rampant recombination and diverse toxin arsenals

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Warmer nights offer no respite for a defensive mutualism

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Self-perpetuating ecological–evolutionary dynamics in an agricultural host–parasite system

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Aphid Facultative Symbionts Aid Recovery of Their Obligate Symbiont and Their Host After Heat Stress

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R-type bacteriocins of Xenorhabdus bovienii determine the outcome of interspecies competition in a natural host environment

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Large scale genome reconstructions illuminate Wolbachia evolution

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Horizontal Transfer of Bacterial Cytolethal Distending Toxin B Genes to Insects

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More Is Not Always Better: Coinfections with Defensive Symbionts Generate Highly Variable Outcomes

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Intraspecific variation in facultative symbiont infection among native and exotic pest populations: Potential implications for biological control

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Symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids – Challenges for biological control

(2018) Christoph Vorburger   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

The role of defensive symbionts in host-parasite coevolution

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Symbiont interactions with non-native hosts limit the formation of new symbioses

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Culture-Facilitated Comparative Genomics of the Facultative Symbiont Hamiltonella defensa

(2018) Germain Chevignon et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Quantifying the unquantifiable: why Hymenoptera, not Coleoptera, is the most speciose animal order

(2018) Andrew A. Forbes et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts use a type VI secretion system to eliminate competitors in their natural host

(2018) Lauren Speare et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Variations on a protective theme: Hamiltonella defensa infections in aphids variably impact parasitoid success

(2018) Kerry M Oliver et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Diversity begets diversity: do parasites promote variation in protective symbionts?

(2018) Nina Hafer et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

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Parasitoid gene expression changes after adaptation to symbiont-protected hosts

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Horizontal Acquisition and Transcriptional Integration of Novel Genes in Mosquito-Associated Spiroplasma

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Multi-modal defences in aphids offer redundant protection and increased costs likely impeding a protective mutualism

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UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

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Breakdown of a defensive symbiosis, but not endogenous defences, at elevated temperatures

(2017) Matthew R. Doremus et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiont strain is the main determinant of variation in Wolbachia -mediated protection against viruses across Drosophila species

(2017) Julien Martinez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

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Generality of toxins in defensive symbiosis: Ribosome-inactivating proteins and defense against parasitic wasps in Drosophila

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Nine facultative endosymbionts in aphids. A review

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

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BEACON: automated tool for Bacterial GEnome Annotation ComparisON

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(2015) SHARON E. ZYTYNSKA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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(2015) E. R. Heyworth et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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(2015) Andrew H. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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(2015) Minoru Kanehisa et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evidence for specificity in symbiont-conferred protection against parasitoids

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(2015) Thomas Brettin et al.   Scientific Reports

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Cheaper is not always worse: strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host

(2014) L. Cayetano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

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Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera

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(2013)   Insect Science

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

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

Effects of parasitism on aphid nutritional and protective symbioses

(2013) Adam J. Martinez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Characterizing and measuring bias in sequence data

(2013) Michael G Ross et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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(2012) Anat Kreimer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids

(2012) Kerry M Oliver et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Strong specificity in the interaction between parasitoids and symbiont-protected hosts

(2012) R. Rouchet et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phage loss and the breakdown of a defensive symbiosis in aphids

(2012) S. R. Weldon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Easyfig: a genome comparison visualizer

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

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Development, specificity and sublethal effects of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

(2011) Maike Schmid et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Complete Bacteriophage Transfer in a Bacterial Endosymbiont (Wolbachia) Determined by Targeted Genome Capture

(2011) Bethany N. Kent et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

IMG: the integrated microbial genomes database and comparative analysis system

(2011) V. M. Markowitz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Evolutionary Genomics of a Temperate Bacteriophage in an Obligate Intracellular Bacteria (Wolbachia)

(2011) Bethany N. Kent et al.   PLoS One

ISsaga is an ensemble of web-based methods for high throughput identification and semi-automatic annotation of insertion sequences in prokaryotic genomes

(2011) Alessandro M Varani et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

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

Dynamics of genome evolution in facultative symbionts of aphids

(2009) Patrick H. Degnan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

GENOTYPIC VARIATION AND THE ROLE OF DEFENSIVE ENDOSYMBIONTS IN AN ALL-PARTHENOGENETIC HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION

(2009) Christoph Vorburger et al.   EVOLUTION

Lateral Phage Transfer in Obligate Intracellular Bacteria (Wolbachia): Verification from Natural Populations

(2009) M. E. Chafee et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Hamiltonella defensa, genome evolution of protective bacterial endosymbiont from pathogenic ancestors

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

Post-Pleistocene radiation of the pea aphid complex revealed by rapidly evolving endosymbionts

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

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Diverse Phage-Encoded Toxins in a Protective Insect Endosymbiont

(2008) P. H. Degnan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE