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Host phylogeny and ecological associations best explain Wolbachia host shifts in scale insects

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Bacterial Competition Influences the Ability of Symbiotic Bacteria to Colonize Western Flower Thrips

(2022) Awawing A. Andongma et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2022) Taoping Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

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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

(2021) Andrew H. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A Link Between Communities of Protective Endosymbionts and Parasitoids of the Pea Aphid Revealed in Unmanipulated Agricultural Systems

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Vast Differences in Strain-Level Diversity in the Gut Microbiota of Two Closely Related Honey Bee Species

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Metabolic Cooperation among Commensal Bacteria Supports Drosophila Juvenile Growth under Nutritional Stress

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(2020) Vincent G. Martinson   Genes

New Insights into the Nature of Symbiotic Associations in Aphids: Infection Process, Biological Effects and Transmission Mode of Cultivable Serratia symbiotica Bacteria

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Transmission of a Protease-Secreting Bacterial Symbiont Among Pea Aphids via Host Plants

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

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(2019) Hideomi Itoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling trophic dependencies and exchanges among insects’ bacterial symbionts in a host-simulated environment

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

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(2018) Daniel Sprockett et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Comparative genomics of a quadripartite symbiosis in a planthopper host reveals the origins and rearranged nutritional responsibilities of anciently diverged bacterial lineages

(2018) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A Freeloader? The Highly Eroded Yet Large Genome of the Serratia symbiotica Symbiont of Cinara strobi

(2018) Alejandro Manzano-Marín et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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(2018) Matthew J Ballinger et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Achieving a multi-strain symbiosis: strain behavior and infection dynamics

(2018) Clotilde Bongrand et al.   ISME Journal

Multi-scale characterization of symbiont diversity in the pea aphid complex through metagenomic approaches

(2018) Cervin Guyomar et al.   Microbiome

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

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolutionary changes in symbiont community structure in ticks

(2017) Olivier Duron 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

Context-dependent vertical transmission shapes strong endosymbiont community structure in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2017) Danielle I. Rock et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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(2017) Jacob A. Russell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants

(2017) Piotr Łukasik et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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(2017) Francesco Dal Grande et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Bacterial Unculturability and the Formation of Intercellular Metabolic Networks

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Consequences of coinfection with protective symbionts on the host phenotype and symbiont titres in the pea aphid system

(2016) Mélanie Leclair et al.   Insect Science

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

(2016) A. S. Meseguer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Specificity of Multi-Modal Aphid Defenses against Two Rival Parasitoids

(2016) Adam J. Martinez et al.   PLoS One

Getting the Hologenome Concept Right: an Eco-Evolutionary Framework for Hosts and Their Microbiomes

(2016) Kevin R. Theis et al.   mSystems

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(2015) Roie Levy et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

First arrived takes all: inhibitory priority effects dominate competition between co-infecting Borrelia burgdorferi strains

(2015) Godefroy Devevey et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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(2015) Sharon Greenblum et al.   CELL

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Plant Host Species and Geographic Distance Affect the Structure of Aboveground Fungal Symbiont Communities, and Environmental Filtering Affects Belowground Communities in a Coastal Dune Ecosystem

(2015) Aaron S. David et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Patterns, causes and consequences of defensive microbiome dynamics across multiple scales

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

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(2015) Paolo Rossi et al.   Parasites & Vectors

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(2015) Alex C. C. Wilson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Host and Symbiont Jointly Control Gut Microbiota during Complete Metamorphosis

(2015) Paul R. Johnston et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Bacterial Communities Associated with Host-Adapted Populations of Pea Aphids Revealed by Deep Sequencing of 16S Ribosomal DNA

(2015) Jean-Pierre Gauthier et al.   PLoS One

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(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

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(2014) N. Nikoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2014) G. L. Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2013) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

Dynamics of the continent-wide spread of aDrosophiladefensive symbiont

(2013) Sarah N. Cockburn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

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Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

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

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(2013) Xiangfeng Jing et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial colonization factors control specificity and stability of the gut microbiota

(2013) S. Melanie Lee et al.   NATURE

Metabolic modeling of species interaction in the human microbiome elucidates community-level assembly rules

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(2012) R. Carr et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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(2012) L. Gehrer et al.   Biology Letters

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(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Still a Host of Hosts for Wolbachia: Analysis of Recent Data Suggests That 40% of Terrestrial Arthropod Species Are Infected

(2012) Roman Zug et al.   PLoS One

A Veritable Menagerie of Heritable Bacteria from Ants, Butterflies, and Beyond: Broad Molecular Surveys and a Systematic Review

(2012) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PLoS One

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Massive Genomic Decay in Serratia symbiotica, a Recently Evolved Symbiont of Aphids

(2011) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

Aphid genome expression reveals host-symbiont cooperation in the production of amino acids

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Rules of Engagement: Interspecies Interactions that Regulate Microbial Communities

(2008) Ainslie E.F. Little et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

The importance of chitobiase and N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) uptake in N,N'-diacetylchitobiose [(GlcNAc)2] utilization by Serratia marcescens 2170

(2008) T. Toratani et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM