Modeling trophic dependencies and exchanges among insects’ bacterial symbionts in a host-simulated environment

Cooperative Metabolism in a Three-Partner Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis Revealed by Metabolic Modeling

(2017) Nana Y. D. Ankrah et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Analysis of Microbial Functions in the Rhizosphere Using a Metabolic-Network Based Framework for Metagenomics Interpretation

(2017) Shany Ofaim et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The draft genome of whitefly Bemisia tabaci MEAM1, a global crop pest, provides novel insights into virus transmission, host adaptation, and insecticide resistance

(2016) Wenbo Chen et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Nature lessons: The whitefly bacterial endosymbiont is a minimal amino acid factory with unusual energetics

(2016) Jorge Calle-Espinosa et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Genome reduction and potential metabolic complementation of the dual endosymbionts in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci

(2015) Qiong Rao 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

Two Host Clades, Two Bacterial Arsenals: Evolution through Gene Losses in Facultative Endosymbionts

(2015) Pierre-Antoine Rollat-Farnier et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genome Evolution in the Primary Endosymbiont of Whiteflies Sheds Light on Their Divergence

(2015) Diego Santos-Garcia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes

(2015) Donovan H. Parks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

Synthetic microbial communities

(2014) Tobias Großkopf et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

The Genome of Cardinium cBtQ1 Provides Insights into Genome Reduction, Symbiont Motility, and Its Settlement in Bemisia tabaci

(2014) Diego Santos-Garcia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Matching the supply of bacterial nutrients to the nutritional demand of the animal host

(2014) C. W. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparison of the Genome Sequences of “Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum” Primary Endosymbionts of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci B and Q Biotypes

(2013) Zi-Feng Jiang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

(2013) Lee M. Henry et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system

(2013) Victor M. Markowitz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Comparative Genomics of Wolbachia and the Bacterial Species Concept

(2013) Kirsten Maren Ellegaard et al.   PLoS Genetics

Characterization of a Newly Discovered Symbiont of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

(2012) Xiao-Li Bing et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

NetCmpt: a network-based tool for calculating the metabolic competition between bacterial species

(2012) Anat Kreimer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

NetSeed: a network-based reverse-ecology tool for calculating the metabolic interface of an organism with its environment

(2012) R. Carr et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies

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

Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids

(2012) Kerry M Oliver et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Draft Genome Sequence of Rickettsia sp. Strain MEAM1, Isolated from the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci

(2012) Q. Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Complete Genome Sequence of “Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum” BT-QVLC, an Obligate Symbiont That Supplies Amino Acids and Carotenoids to Bemisia tabaci

(2012) Diego Santos-Garcia et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Extensive exometabolome analysis reveals extended overflow metabolism in various microorganisms

(2012) Nicole Paczia et al.   Microbial Cell Factories

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ecosystems biology of microbial metabolism

(2011) Niels Klitgord et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Aphid alarm pheromone: An overview of current knowledge on biosynthesis and functions

(2011) Sophie Vandermoten et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Arthropod symbioses: a neglected parameter in pest- and disease-control programmes

(2011) Renate Zindel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Genetic and metabolic determinants of nutritional phenotype in an insect-bacterial symbiosis

(2011) S. J. MACDONALD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Microorganisms from aphid honeydew attract and enhance the efficacy of natural enemies

(2011) Pascal D. Leroy et al.   Nature Communications

Competitive and cooperative metabolic interactions in bacterial communities

(2011) Shiri Freilich et al.   Nature Communications

Bemisia tabaci: A Statement of Species Status

(2010) Paul J. De Barro et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Endosymbiont metacommunities, mtDNA diversity and the evolution of the Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) species complex

(2010) GWÉNAELLE GUEGUEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Emergent cooperation in microbial metabolism

(2010) Edwin H Wintermute et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

GenePRIMP: a gene prediction improvement pipeline for prokaryotic genomes

(2010) Amrita Pati et al.   NATURE METHODS

Building Fe–S proteins: bacterial strategies

(2010) Béatrice Py et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

The large-scale organization of the bacterial network of ecological co-occurrence interactions

(2010) Shiri Freilich et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Environments that Induce Synthetic Microbial Ecosystems

(2010) Niels Klitgord et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Microbial community structure and its functional implications

(2009) Jed A. Fuhrman   NATURE

Getting in Touch with Your Friends

(2009) C. J. Marx   SCIENCE

The metagenomics RAST server – a public resource for the automatic phylogenetic and functional analysis of metagenomes

(2008) F Meyer et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Inherited intracellular ecosystem: symbiotic bacteria share bacteriocytes in whiteflies

(2008) Yuval Gottlieb et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Learning how to live together: genomic insights into prokaryote–animal symbioses

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS