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(2017) Yi Hu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Defensive insect symbiont leads to cascading extinctions and community collapse

(2016) Dirk Sanders et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2016) Michele Caroline Lanan et al.   ISME Journal

Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honeybees and bumblebees

(2016) Elijah Powell et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Early and dynamic colonization of Central America drives speciation in Neotropical army ants

(2016) Max E. Winston et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Into the black and back: the ecology of brain investment in Neotropical army ants (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

(2016) S. Bulova et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees

(2016) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

(2016) Marek Borowiec   ZooKeys

Beyond 16S rRNA Community Profiling: Intra-Species Diversity in the Gut Microbiota

(2016) Kirsten M. Ellegaard et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Into the black and back: the ecology of brain investment in Neotropical army ants (Formicidae: Dorylinae)

(2016) S. Bulova et al.   Science of Nature

The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation

(2016) Minna-Maria Neuvonen et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

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

(2015) Andreas Brune et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Diet is the primary determinant of bacterial community structure in the guts of higher termites

(2015) Aram Mikaelyan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Joanito Liberti et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects

(2015) H. Salem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

(2014) J. Elijah Powell 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

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

(2014) Seán G Brady et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants

(2014) S. L. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

(2014) N. A. Broderick et al.   mBio

Hidden Diversity in Honey Bee Gut Symbionts Detected by Single-Cell Genomics

(2014) Philipp Engel et al.   PLoS Genetics

Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth 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

Unearthing carrion beetles' microbiome: characterization of bacterial and fungal hindgut communities across the Silphidae

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

(2013) Hauke Koch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Specificity and stability of the Acromyrmex -Pseudonocardia symbiosis

(2013) S. B. Andersen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

A Cross-Taxon Analysis of Insect-Associated Bacterial Diversity

(2013) Ryan Thomas Jones et al.   PLoS One

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

Recurrent Evolution of Dependent Colony Foundation Across Eusocial Insects

(2012) Adam L. Cronin et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Surveying the Microbiome of Ants: Comparing 454 Pyrosequencing with Traditional Methods To Uncover Bacterial Diversity

(2012) Stefanie Kautz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

(2012) Vincent G. Martinson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiont recruitment versus ant-symbiont co-evolution in the attine ant–microbe symbiosis

(2012) Ulrich G Mueller   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Mycangia of Ambrosia Beetles Host Communities of Bacteria

(2012) J. Hulcr et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

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

Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs,Pyrrhocoris apterus(Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Still a Host of Hosts for Wolbachia: Analysis of Recent Data Suggests That 40% of Terrestrial Arthropod Species Are Infected

(2012) Roman Zug et al.   PLoS One

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

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

(2012) P. Engel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2011) Heather D. Ishak et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial Communities in Central European Bumblebees: Low Diversity and High Specificity

(2011) Hauke Koch et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

The Antiquity and Evolutionary History of Social Behavior in Bees

(2011) Sophie Cardinal et al.   PLoS One

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) A. G. Himler et al.   SCIENCE

Drosophila Microbiome Modulates Host Developmental and Metabolic Homeostasis via Insulin Signaling

(2011) S. C. Shin et al.   SCIENCE

Population genetics of beneficial heritable symbionts

(2011) John Jaenike   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2011) James Angus Chandler et al.   PLoS Genetics

Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade ofEntomoplasmatalesBacteria

(2010) Colin F. Funaro et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

(2010) M. J. Cafaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

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

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

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

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

(2009) Jennifer J Wernegreen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Invasive and indigenous microbiota impact intestinal stem cell activity through multiple pathways in Drosophila

(2009) N. Buchon et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Accurate determination of microbial diversity from 454 pyrosequencing data

(2009) Christopher Quince et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

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

(2008) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

SPECIALIZATION AND GEOGRAPHIC ISOLATION AMONGWOLBACHIASYMBIONTS FROM ANTS AND LYCAENID BUTTERFLIES

(2008) Jacob A. Russell et al.   EVOLUTION