The evolutionary development of plant-feeding insects and their nutritional endosymbionts

Intraspecific genetic variation in hosts affects regulation of obligate heritable symbionts

(2016) Rebecca A. Chong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cellular and molecular remodelling of a host cell for vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts

(2016) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Heritability of symbiont density reveals distinct regulatory mechanisms in a tripartite symbiosis

(2016) Jasmine F. Parkinson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Ontogenetic differences in localization of glutamine transporter ApGLNT1 in the pea aphid demonstrate that mechanisms of host/symbiont integration are not similar in the maternal versus embryonic bacteriome

(2016) Hsiao-ling Lu et al.   EvoDevo

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

Scrutinizing the immune defence inventory of Camponotus floridanus applying total transcriptome sequencing

(2015) Shishir K. Gupta et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Metabolic Coevolution in the Bacterial Symbiosis of Whiteflies and Related Plant Sap-Feeding Insects

(2015) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Systemic Infection Generates a Local-Like Immune Response of the Bacteriome Organ in Insect Symbiosis

(2015) Florent Masson et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents

(2015) Scott F. Gilbert et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Ultrabithoraxis essential for bacteriocyte development

(2015) Yu Matsuura et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Infection Dynamic of Symbiotic Bacteria in the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum Gut and Host Immune Response at the Early Steps in the Infection Process

(2015) François Renoz et al.   PLoS One

Asian Citrus Psyllid Expression Profiles Suggest Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus-Mediated Alteration of Adult Nutrition and Metabolism, and of Nymphal Development and Immunity

(2015) Meenal Vyas et al.   PLoS One

Metabolic Interplay between the Asian Citrus Psyllid and Its Profftella Symbiont: An Achilles’ Heel of the Citrus Greening Insect Vector

(2015) John S. Ramsey et al.   PLoS One

The Tiniest Tiny Genomes

(2014) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Insects Recycle Endosymbionts when the Benefit Is Over

(2014) Aurélien Vigneron et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Genome Degeneration and Adaptation in a Nascent Stage of Symbiosis

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

Widespread expression of conserved small RNAs in small symbiont genomes

(2014) Allison K Hansen et al.   ISME Journal

Implication of the Bacterial Endosymbiont Rickettsia spp. in Interactions of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci with Tomato yellow leaf curl virus

(2014) A. Kliot et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Population Dynamics and Growth Rates of Endosymbionts During Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera, Liviidae) Ontogeny

(2014) Fabio Cleisto Alda Dossi et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Parallel Histories of Horizontal Gene Transfer Facilitated Extreme Reduction of Endosymbiont Genomes in Sap-Feeding Insects

(2014) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Wolbachiasmall noncoding RNAs and their role in cross-kingdom communications

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

The Combined Effects of Bacterial Symbionts and Aging on Life History Traits in the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2013) Alice M. Laughton et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Tyrosine pathway regulation is host-mediated in the pea aphid symbiosis during late embryonic and early larval development

(2013) Andréane Rabatel et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

Defensive Bacteriome Symbiont with a Drastically Reduced Genome

(2013) Atsushi Nakabachi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Defensive symbiosis in the real world - advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

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

Gene expression analysis of the endosymbiont-bearing midgut tissue during ontogeny of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2013) Carolin Ratzka et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Aphid amino acid transporter regulates glutamine supply to intracellular bacterial symbionts

(2013) D. R. G. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies

(2012) D. B. Sloan et al.   Biology Letters

Host gene response to endosymbiont and pathogen in the cereal weevil Sitophilus oryzae

(2012) Aurélien Vigneron et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Reduction and Co-evolution between the Primary and Secondary Bacterial Symbionts of Psyllids

(2012) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Cellular Immune Response of the Pea Aphid to Foreign Intrusion and Symbiotic Challenge

(2012) Antonin Schmitz et al.   PLoS One

Cellular mechanism for selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte-embryo interface

(2012) R. Koga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Human Mitochondrial Transcriptome

(2011) Tim R. Mercer et al.   CELL

Responses of the pea aphid transcriptome to infection by facultative symbionts

(2011) G. R. Burke et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Large-Scale Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics of the Pea aphid-BuchneraSymbiosis

(2011) Anton Poliakov et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

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

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

Effect of Host Genotype on Symbiont Titer in the Aphid—Buchnera Symbiosis

(2011) Kevin J. Vogel et al.   Insects

Bacteriocyte dynamics during development of a holometabolous insect, the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2010) Sascha Stoll et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

How the insect immune system interacts with an obligate symbiotic bacterium

(2010) A. E. Douglas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010)   PLOS BIOLOGY

Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) Nicole M Gerardo et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Age- and morph-dependent activation of the lysosomal system and Buchnera degradation in aphid endosymbiosis

(2009) Kenji Nishikori et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Transcriptome Complexity in a Genome-Reduced Bacterium

(2009) M. Guell et al.   SCIENCE

Morph-Dependent Expression and Subcellular Localization of Host Serine Carboxypeptidase in Bacteriocytes of the Pea Aphid Associated with Degradation of the Endosymbiotic BacteriumBuchnera

(2009) Kenji Nishikori et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Infection Dynamics of Coexisting Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria in the Nested Endosymbiotic System of Mealybugs

(2008) M. Kono et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Identification of the Weevil immune genes and their expression in the bacteriome tissue

(2008) Caroline Anselme et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Wounding-mediated gene expression and accelerated viviparous reproduction of the pea aphidAcyrthosiphon pisum

(2008) B. Altincicek et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY