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

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

(2017) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   EVOLUTION

How Long Does Wolbachia Remain on Board?

(2017) Marc Bailly-Bechet et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field

(2016) Jan Hrček et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Host nuclear genotype influences phenotype of a conditional mutualist symbiont

(2016) M. S. Hunter et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

NetCooperate: a network-based tool for inferring host-microbe and microbe-microbe cooperation

(2015) Roie Levy et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Facultative endosymbionts mediate dietary breadth in a polyphagous herbivore

(2015) Steven M. Wagner et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A facultative endosymbiont in aphids can provide diverse ecological benefits

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

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

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

Secondary bacterial symbiont community in aphids responds to plant diversity

(2015) Sharon E. Zytynska et al.   OECOLOGIA

Signatures of host/symbiont genome coevolution in insect nutritional endosymbioses

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

The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods

(2015) L. A. Weinert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sexual transmission of beneficial microbes

(2015) Chad C. Smith et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Factors Limiting the Spread of the Protective Symbiont Hamiltonella defensa in Aphis craccivora Aphids

(2014) Hannah R. Dykstra et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Aphid-encoded variability in susceptibility to a parasitoid

(2014) Adam J Martinez et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Specialisation of bacterial endosymbionts that protect aphids from parasitoids

(2014) MARK K. ASPLEN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Major Histocompatibility Complex class IIb polymorphism influences gut microbiota composition and diversity

(2014) Daniel I. Bolnick et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Host tissues as microhabitats forWolbachiaand quantitative insights into the bacterial community in terrestrial isopods

(2014) J. Dittmer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Dietary history contributes to enterotype-like clustering and functional metagenomic content in the intestinal microbiome of wild mice

(2014) Jun Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intrasperm vertical symbiont transmission

(2014) K. Watanabe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Native microbiome impedes vertical transmission of Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes

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

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

Interactions between fungi and bacteria influence microbial community structure in the Megachile rotundata larval gut

(2014) Q. S. McFrederick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insect endosymbiont proliferation is limited by lipid availability

(2014) Jeremy K Herren et al.   eLife

Variations in the identity and complexity of endosymbiont combinations in whitefly hosts

(2014) Einat Zchori-Fein et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Phenotypic Effect of “Candidatus Rickettsiella viridis,” a Facultative Symbiont of the Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), and Its Interaction with a Coexisting Symbiont

(2013) Tsutomu Tsuchida et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

(2013) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

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

Inheritance patterns of secondary symbionts during sexual reproduction of pea aphid biotypes

(2013) Jean Peccoud et al.   Insect Science

Genotype-by-genotype specificity remains robust to average temperature variation in an aphid/endosymbiont/parasitoid system

(2013) L. Cayetano et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2013) P. Łukasik et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

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

Monophyly ofWolbachia pipientisgenomes withinDrosophila melanogaster: geographic structuring, titre variation and host effects across five populations

(2013) Angela M. Early et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The bacterial communities in plant phloem-sap-feeding insects

(2013) Xiangfeng Jing et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Vertical Transmission of a Drosophila Endosymbiont Via Cooption of the Yolk Transport and Internalization Machinery

(2013) J. K. Herren et al.   mBio

Modeling the Ecology of Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Parasites

(2012) Marek Kwiatkowski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

(2012) L. Gehrer et al.   Biology Letters

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

EVOLUTIONARY STABILITY IN A 400-MILLION-YEAR-OLD HERITABLE FACULTATIVE MUTUALISM

(2012) Stephen J. Mondo et al.   EVOLUTION

Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species

(2012) KIRK E. ANDERSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Environmental and ecological factors that shape the gut bacterial communities of fish: a meta-analysis

(2012) KAREN E. SULLAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

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

On Genetic Specificity in Symbiont-Mediated Host-Parasite Coevolution

(2012) Marek Kwiatkowski et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Microbial Co-occurrence Relationships in the Human Microbiome

(2012) Karoline Faust et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

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

(2011) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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

Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission

(2011) A. A. Hoffmann et al.   NATURE

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

(2011) Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al.   NATURE

Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities

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

Diet Drives Convergence in Gut Microbiome Functions Across Mammalian Phylogeny and Within Humans

(2011) B. D. Muegge et al.   SCIENCE

Population genetics of beneficial heritable symbionts

(2011) John Jaenike   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Microbiome influences on insect host vector competence

(2011) Brian Weiss et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Co-infection and localization of secondary symbionts in two whitefly species

(2010) Marisa Skaljac et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Defensive endosymbionts: a cryptic trophic level in community ecology

(2010) John Jaenike et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Diversity and infection prevalence of endosymbionts in natural populations of the chestnut weevil: relevance of local climate and host plants

(2010) HIROKAZU TOJU et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Quenching autofluorescence of insect tissues for in situ detection of endosymbionts

(2009) Ryuichi Koga et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Effects of facultative symbionts and heat stress on the metabolome of pea aphids

(2009) Gaelen Burke et al.   ISME Journal

Association between Wolbachia and Spiroplasma within Drosophila neotestacea: an emerging symbiotic mutualism?

(2009) JOHN JAENIKE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Convergent evolution of metabolic roles in bacterial co-symbionts of insects

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

Wolbachia as populations within individual insects: causes and consequences of density variation in natural populations

(2009) R. L. Unckless et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interactions between vertically transmitted symbionts: cooperation or conflict?

(2009) Emilie Vautrin et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

The diversity of reproductive parasites among arthropods: Wolbachia do not walk alone

(2008) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

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