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

Reinventing the Wheel and Making It Round Again: Evolutionary Convergence inBuchnera–SerratiaSymbiotic Consortia between the Distantly Related Lachninae AphidsTuberolachnus salignusandCinara cedri

(2016) Alejandro Manzano-Marín et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Repeated replacement of an intrabacterial symbiont in the tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis

(2016) Filip Husnik et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Direct flow cytometry measurements reveal a fine-tuning of symbiotic cell dynamics according to the host developmental needs in aphid symbiosis

(2016) Pierre Simonet et al.   Scientific Reports

An aphid lineage maintains a bark-feeding niche while switching to and diversifying on conifers

(2015) Rui Chen et al.   CLADISTICS

The natural occurrence of secondary bacterial symbionts in aphids

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

Insect life history and the evolution of bacterial mutualism

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

Unravelling the historical biogeography and diversification dynamics of a highly diverse conifer-feeding aphid genus

(2015) Andrea S. Meseguer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Bacterial symbiont sharing inMegalomyrmexsocial parasites and their fungus-growing ant hosts

(2015) Joanito Liberti et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Assessment of a 16S rRNA amplicon Illumina sequencing procedure for studying the microbiome of a symbiont-rich aphid genus

(2015) E. Jousselin et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

(2015) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insects Recycle Endosymbionts when the Benefit Is Over

(2014) Aurélien Vigneron et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Symbiont-conferred protection against Hymenopteran parasitoids in aphids: how general is it?

(2014) LUIS CAYETANO et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Settling Down: The Genome of Serratia symbiotica from the Aphid Cinara tujafilina Zooms in on the Process of Accommodation to a Cooperative Intracellular Life

(2014) Alejandro Manzano-Marín et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genome Degeneration and Adaptation in a Nascent Stage of Symbiosis

(2014) Kelly F. Oakeson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Swapping symbionts in spittlebugs: evolutionary replacement of a reduced genome symbiont

(2014) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ISME Journal

DNA Barcoding and the Associated PhylAphidB@se Website for the Identification of European Aphids (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aphididae)

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A Linear-Time Algorithm for Gaussian and Non-Gaussian Trait Evolution Models

(2014) Lam si Tung Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Differential Genome Evolution Between Companion Symbionts in an Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis

(2014) G. M. Bennett et al.   mBio

How resident microbes modulate ecologically-important traits of insects

(2014) Kerry M Oliver et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

The Pine Bark Adelgid, Pineus strobi, Contains Two Novel Bacteriocyte-Associated Gammaproteobacterial Symbionts

(2013) Elena R. Toenshoff et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

A general species delimitation method with applications to phylogenetic placements

(2013) Jiajie Zhang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenetic analysis of symbionts in feather-feeding lice of the genus Columbicola: evidence for repeated symbiont replacements

(2013) Wendy A Smith et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

How Conserved Are the Bacterial Communities Associated With Aphids? A Detailed Assessment of the Brevicoryne brassicae (Hemiptera: Aphididae) Using 16S rDNA

(2013) E. L. Clark et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2013) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Is ecological speciation a major trend in aphids? Insights from a molecular phylogeny of the conifer-feeding genus Cinara

(2013) Emmanuelle Jousselin et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

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

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   ISME Journal

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bayesian inference of phylogeny, morphology and range evolution reveals a complex evolutionary history in St. John’s wort (Hypericum)

(2013) Andrea Sánchez Meseguer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Taxonomic Classification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes Using Short Sequencing Reads: Evaluation of Effective Study Designs

(2013) Orna Mizrahi-Man et al.   PLoS One

Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation

(2012) Jennifer J Wernegreen   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Co-evolution and symbiont replacement shaped the symbiosis between adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) and their bacterial symbionts

(2012) Elena R. Toenshoff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Insect symbionts as hidden players in insect–plant interactions

(2012) Enric Frago et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

New Clues about the Evolutionary History of Metabolic Losses in Bacterial Endosymbionts, Provided by the Genome of Buchnera aphidicola from the Aphid Cinara tujafilina

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Assessing and Improving Methods Used in Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Approaches for 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Quality control and preprocessing of metagenomic datasets

(2011) R. Schmieder et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

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

The phylogeny of Sodalis-like symbionts as reconstructed using surface-encoding loci

(2011) Anna K. Snyder et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Detection and Characterization of Wolbachia Infections in Natural Populations of Aphids: Is the Hidden Diversity Fully Unraveled?

(2011) Antonis A. Augustinos et al.   PLoS One

Serratia symbiotica from the Aphid Cinara cedri: A Missing Link from Facultative to Obligate Insect Endosymbiont

(2011) Araceli Lamelas et al.   PLoS Genetics

Genomic insight into the amino acid relations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, with its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

(2010) A. C. C. Wilson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Evolutionary microbial genomics: insights into bacterial host adaptation

(2010) Christina Toft et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Galaxy: a comprehensive approach for supporting accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational research in the life sciences

(2010) Jeremy Goecks 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

Evolution and Diversity of Facultative Symbionts from the Aphid Subfamily Lachninae

(2009) G. R. Burke et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Impact of environmental stress on aphid clonal resistance to parasitoids: Role of Hamiltonella defensa bacterial symbiosis in association with a new facultative symbiont of the pea aphid

(2009) Jean-Frédéric Guay et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

When Trees Grow Too Long: Investigating the Causes of Highly Inaccurate Bayesian Branch-Length Estimates

(2009) Jeremy M. Brown et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Logistic Regression for Binary Dependent Variables

(2009) Anthony R. Ives et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolution of the Secondary Symbiont "Candidatus Serratia symbiotica" in Aphid Species of the Subfamily Lachninae

(2008) A. Lamelas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

The Striking Case of Tryptophan Provision in the Cedar Aphid Cinara cedri

(2008) M. J. Gosalbes et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Long-Term Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Endosymbiosis in Curculionoidea: Additional Evidence of Symbiont Replacement in the Dryophthoridae Family

(2008) Cyrille Conord et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

(2008) James C. Zachos et al.   NATURE

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

(2007) K. M Oliver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES