The holobiont concept: the case of xylophagous termites and cockroaches

Termites as Targets and Models for Biotechnology

(2015) Michael E. Scharf   Annual Review of Entomology

Putting the Balance Back in Diet

(2015) Stephen J. Simpson et al.   CELL

Effects of Diurnal Variation of Gut Microbes and High-Fat Feeding on Host Circadian Clock Function and Metabolism

(2015) Vanessa Leone et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments

(2015) CHRISTINE A. NALEPA   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Dominant ectosymbiotic bacteria of cellulolytic protists in the termite gut also have the potential to digest lignocellulose

(2015) Masahiro Yuki et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A facultative endosymbiont in aphids can provide diverse ecological benefits

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

Giving microbes their due - animal life in a microbially dominant world

(2015) M. J. McFall-Ngai   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Acetogenesis from H2plus CO2and nitrogen fixation by an endosymbiotic spirochete of a termite-gut cellulolytic protist

(2015) Moriya Ohkuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiple analyses of microbial communities applied to the gut of the wood-feeding termite Reticulitermes flavipes fed on artificial diets

(2015) Cédric Tarayre et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Classifying the bacterial gut microbiota of termites and cockroaches: A curated phylogenetic reference database (DictDb)

(2015) Aram Mikaelyan et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Riboflavin Provisioning Underlies Wolbachia's Fitness Contribution to Its Insect Host

(2015) M. Moriyama et al.   mBio

Diet, Microbiota and Immune System in Type 1 Diabetes Development and Evolution

(2015) María Mejía-León et al.   Nutrients

The link between independent acquisition of intracellular gamma-endosymbionts and concerted evolution in Tremblaya princeps

(2015) Sergio López-Madrigal et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

454 Pyrosequencing-based assessment of bacterial diversity and community structure in termite guts, mounds and surrounding soils

(2015) Huxley M. Makonde et al.   SpringerPlus

The Distribution of Wolbachia in Cubitermes (Termitidae, Termitinae) Castes and Colonies: A Modelling Approach

(2015) Virginie Roy et al.   PLoS One

Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence

(2015) Frédéric Legendre et al.   PLoS One

The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events

(2014) Carsten Dietrich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insect Gut Bacterial Diversity Determined by Environmental Habitat, Diet, Developmental Stage, and Phylogeny of Host

(2014) Ji-Hyun Yun et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiosis as the way of eukaryotic life: The dependent co-origination of the body

(2014) Scott F Gilbert   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Pyrotag Sequencing of the Gut Microbiota of the Cockroach Shelfordella lateralis Reveals a Highly Dynamic Core but Only Limited Effects of Diet on Community Structure

(2014) Christine Schauer et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary origin of insect-Wolbachia nutritional mutualism

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

Review of treatment methods to remove Wolbachia bacteria from arthropods

(2014) Y.-Y. Li et al.   SYMBIOSIS

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

(2014) G. M. Bennett et al.   mBio

Impact of the gut microbiota on the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus

(2014) Isabel Moreno-Indias et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Host-specific assemblages typify gut microbial communities of related insect species

(2014) Zakee L Sabree et al.   SpringerPlus

Lignocellulose-degrading enzymes from termites and their symbiotic microbiota

(2013) Jinfeng Ni et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Comparative analysis of genome sequences from four strains of the Buchnera aphidicola Mp endosymbion of the green peach aphid, Myzus persicae

(2013) Zhijie Jiang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

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

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

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Order Blattodea. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

(2013) GEORGE BECCALONI et al.   ZOOTAXA

High-Resolution Analysis of Gut Environment and Bacterial Microbiota Reveals Functional Compartmentation of the Gut in Wood-Feeding Higher Termites (Nasutitermes spp.)

(2012) Tim Köhler et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metabolic stasis in an ancient symbiosis: genome-scale metabolic networks from two Blattabacterium cuenoti strains, primary endosymbionts of cockroaches

(2012) Carmen González-Domenech et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

(2012) D. R. Colman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

(2012) Harry J. Flint et al.   Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Parabasalia with Improved Taxon Sampling and New Protein Markers of Actin and Elongation Factor-1α

(2012) Satoko Noda et al.   PLoS One

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

Genome Shrinkage and Loss of Nutrient-Providing Potential in the Obligate Symbiont of the Primitive Termite Mastotermes darwiniensis

(2011) Zakee L. Sabree et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Disruption of the Termite Gut Microbiota and Its Prolonged Consequences for Fitness

(2011) Rebeca B. Rosengaus et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Toward the functional analysis of uncultivable, symbiotic microorganisms in the termite gut

(2011) Yuichi Hongoh   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont

(2011) Shuji Shigenobu et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Bacteroidales ectosymbionts of gut flagellates shape the nitrogen-fixing community in dry-wood termites

(2011) Mahesh S Desai et al.   ISME Journal

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

(2011) J. L. Sachs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity and Genomes of Uncultured Microbial Symbionts in the Termite Gut

(2010) Yuichi HONGOH   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Critical Taxonomic Revision of Parabasalids with Description of one New Genus and three New Species

(2010) Ivan Cepicka et al.   PROTIST

Cellulolytic Systems in Insects

(2009) Hirofumi Watanabe et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Complex coevolutionary history of symbiotic Bacteroidales bacteria of various protists in the gut of termites

(2009) Satoko Noda et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genome size of Pachypsylla venusta (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) and the ploidy of its bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors intracellular mutualistic bacteria with the smallest cellular genome

(2009) A. Nakabachi et al.   BULLETIN OF ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH

EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS: On the Origin of Life on Earth

(2009) C. Zimmer   SCIENCE

Biology of Subterranean Termites: Insights from Molecular Studies ofReticulitermesandCoptotermes

(2008) Edward L. Vargo et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Blattabacteria, the endosymbionts of cockroaches, have small genome sizes and high genome copy numbers

(2008) María José López-Sánchez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cospeciation of termite gut flagellates and their bacterial endosymbionts:Trichonymphaspecies and ‘CandidatusEndomicrobium trichonymphae’

(2008) WAKAKO IKEDA-OHTSUBO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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

Complete genome of the uncultured Termite Group 1 bacteria in a single host protist cell

(2008) Y. Hongoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trichonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus

(2008) M. Ohkuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome of an Endosymbiont Coupling N2 Fixation to Cellulolysis Within Protist Cells in Termite Gut

(2008) Y. Hongoh et al.   SCIENCE

Symbioses of flagellates and prokaryotes in the gut of lower termites

(2008) Moriya Ohkuma   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY