By their own devices: invasive Argentine ants have shifted diet without clear aid from symbiotic microbes

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A bacterial filter protects and structures the gut microbiome of an insect

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16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing for Epidemiological Surveys of Bacteria in Wildlife

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The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution

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Wolbachia-Mediated Antiviral Protection in Drosophila Larvae and Adults following Oral Infection

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Floral visitation by the Argentine ant reduces bee visitation and plant seed set

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Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants

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The Bamboo-Eating Giant Panda Harbors a Carnivore-Like Gut Microbiota, with Excessive Seasonal Variations

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Culture-Independent Analysis of Bacterial Communities in the Gut of Rice Water Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

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The Facultative Symbiont Rickettsia Protects an Invasive Whitefly against Entomopathogenic Pseudomonas syringae Strains

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Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

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SASI-Seq: sample assurance Spike-Ins, and highly differentiating 384 barcoding for Illumina sequencing

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Distribution and dietary regulation of an associated facultative Rhizobiales-related bacterium in the omnivorous giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata

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Microbiota-Induced Changes in Drosophila melanogaster Host Gene Expression and Gut Morphology

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DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure

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Dynamic Disease Management in Trachymyrmex Fungus-Growing Ants (Attini: Formicidae)

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Interspecies Interactions Determine the Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Nutrient Allocation in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Peter D. Newell 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

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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

Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability

(2013) Yi Hu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Population genomics of a symbiont in the early stages of a pest invasion

(2013) Amanda M. V. Brown et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

(2013) Jon G. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome

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The gut microbiota — masters of host development and physiology

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A Cross-Taxon Analysis of Insect-Associated Bacterial Diversity

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

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Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

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Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

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Functional interactions between the gut microbiota and host metabolism

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Symbionts as Major Modulators of Insect Health: Lactic Acid Bacteria and Honeybees

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The hitchhiker’s guide to alien ant invasions

(2011) Wolfgang Rabitsch   BIOCONTROL

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

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Lessons from Studying Insect Symbioses

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Nitrogen Fixation in Asaia sp. (Family Acetobacteraceae)

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Invasional meltdown: Invader–invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

(2011) Peter T Green et al.   ECOLOGY

Low-diversity bacterial community in the gut of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster

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Rickettsia influences thermotolerance in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci B biotype

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Bacterial Diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata Ant Colonies Characterized by 16S amplicon 454 Pyrosequencing

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Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform

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

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Intercontinental differences in resource use reveal the importance of mutualisms in fire ant invasions

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

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Rapid Spread of a Bacterial Symbiont in an Invasive Whitefly Is Driven by Fitness Benefits and Female Bias

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

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Metagenomic Discovery of Biomass-Degrading Genes and Genomes from Cow Rumen

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Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

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Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade ofEntomoplasmatalesBacteria

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Do invasive ants respond more strongly to carbohydrate availability than co-occurring non-invasive ants? A test along an active Anoplolepis gracilipes invasion front

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Plant-based food resources, trophic interactions among alien species, and the abundance of an invasive ant

(2010) Ken R. Helms et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

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

(2010) Sascha Stoll et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Nutrition and interference competition have interactive effects on the behavior and performance of Argentine ants

(2010) Adam D. Kay et al.   ECOLOGY

Dietary flexibility aids Asian earthworm invasion in North American forests

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

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Global-scale analyses of chemical ecology and population genetics in the invasive Argentine ant

(2009) M. BRANDT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen recycling and nutritional provisioning by Blattabacterium, the cockroach endosymbiont

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Reduced biological control and enhanced chemical pest management in the evolution of fungus farming in ants

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Genetics and Behavior of a Colonizing Species: The Invasive Argentine Ant

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Dietary shift of an invasive predator: rats, seabirds and sea turtles

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The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

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

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Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

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