Do Bacterial Symbionts Govern Aphid's Dropping Behavior?

An ecological cost associated with protective symbionts of aphids

(2014) Sarah Polin et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Aphid facultative symbionts reduce survival of the predatory lady beetle Hippodamia convergens

(2014) Kelly Costopoulos et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Shared Metabolic Pathways in a Coevolved Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis

(2013) Calum W. Russell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Using Genome Query Language to uncover genetic variation

(2013) Christos Kozanitis et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

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

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

PANDAseq: paired-end assembler for illumina sequences

(2012) Andre P Masella et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Coverage evaluation of universal bacterial primers using the metagenomic datasets

(2012) Dan-Ping Mao et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Selection of primers for optimal taxonomic classification of environmental 16S rRNA gene sequences

(2012) David A W Soergel et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Young Aphids Avoid Erroneous Dropping when Evading Mammalian Herbivores by Combining Input from Two Sensory Modalities

(2012) Moshe Gish et al.   PLoS One

Groundtruthing Next-Gen Sequencing for Microbial Ecology–Biases and Errors in Community Structure Estimates from PCR Amplicon Pyrosequencing

(2012) Charles K. Lee et al.   PLoS One

Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance

(2012) Steven W. Kembel et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Symbiont infection affects aphid defensive behaviours

(2011) E. Dion et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2011) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

Experimental and analytical tools for studying the human microbiome

(2011) Justin Kuczynski et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Avoiding incidental predation by mammalian herbivores: accurate detection and efficient response in aphids

(2011) Moshe Gish et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Target Region Selection Is a Critical Determinant of Community Fingerprints Generated by 16S Pyrosequencing

(2011) Purnima S. Kumar et al.   PLoS One

Mammalian herbivore breath alerts aphids to flee host plant

(2010) Moshe Gish et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

A functional DNA methylation system in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) T. K. Walsh et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

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