Metabolic Coevolution in the Bacterial Symbiosis of Whiteflies and Related Plant Sap-Feeding Insects

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

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

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

Expression of multiple horizontally acquired genes is a hallmark of both vertebrate and invertebrate genomes

(2015) Alastair Crisp et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The Tiniest Tiny Genomes

(2014) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Aphid gene of bacterial origin encodes a protein transported to an obligate endosymbiont

(2014) Atsushi Nakabachi et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Versatile roles of the chaperonin GroEL in microorganism-insect interactions

(2014) Maria Kupper et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Bacterial origin of a diverse family of UDP-glycosyltransferase genes in the Tetranychus urticae genome

(2014) Seung-Joon Ahn et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Widespread expression of conserved small RNAs in small symbiont genomes

(2014) Allison K Hansen et al.   ISME Journal

Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology

(2014) Stephen J Giovannoni et al.   ISME Journal

Swapping symbionts in spittlebugs: evolutionary replacement of a reduced genome symbiont

(2014) Ryuichi Koga et al.   ISME Journal

Differential Responses of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci Symbionts to Unfavorable Low and High Temperatures

(2014) Hong-Wei Shan et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Parallel Histories of Horizontal Gene Transfer Facilitated Extreme Reduction of Endosymbiont Genomes in Sap-Feeding Insects

(2014) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   MOLECULAR 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

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

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

Molecular dissection of nutrient exchange at the insect-microbial interface

(2014) Angela E Douglas   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Shared Metabolic Pathways in a Coevolved Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis

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

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

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

(2013) Filip Husnik et al.   CELL

The Evolution of Genomic Instability in the Obligate Endosymbionts of Whiteflies

(2013) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The bacterial communities in plant phloem-sap-feeding insects

(2013) Xiangfeng Jing et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Endosymbiotic bacteria as a source of carotenoids in whiteflies

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

Analysis of a native whitefly transcriptome and its sequence divergence with two invasive whitefly species

(2012) Xiao-Wei Wang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

The central role of the host cell in symbiotic nitrogen metabolism

(2012) S. J. Macdonald et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biochemical Diversification through Foreign Gene Expression in Bdelloid Rotifers

(2012) Chiara Boschetti et al.   PLoS Genetics

Horizontally transferred fungal carotenoid genes in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae

(2011) B. Altincicek et al.   Biology Letters

Amino acids biosynthesis and nitrogen assimilation pathways: a great genomic deletion during eukaryotes evolution

(2011) RLM Guedes et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Pyrosequencing the transcriptome of the greenhouse whitefly, Trialeurodes vaporariorum reveals multiple transcripts encoding insecticide targets and detoxifying enzymes

(2011) Nikos Karatolos et al.   BMC GENOMICS

An Interdependent Metabolic Patchwork in the Nested Symbiosis of Mealybugs

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

Large-Scale Label-Free Quantitative Proteomics of the Pea aphid-BuchneraSymbiosis

(2011) Anton Poliakov et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

(2011) John P. McCutcheon et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Rickettsia ‘In’ and ‘Out’: Two Different Localization Patterns of a Bacterial Symbiont in the Same Insect Species

(2011) Ayelet Caspi-Fluger et al.   PLoS One

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

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aphids alter host-plant nitrogen isotope fractionation

(2011) A. C. C. Wilson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bemisia tabaci: A Statement of Species Status

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

De novo characterization of a whitefly transcriptome and analysis of its gene expression during development

(2010) Xiao-Wei Wang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2010) Marisa Skaljac et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic insight into the amino acid relations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, with its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

(2010) A. C. C. Wilson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Multiple lateral gene transfers and duplications have promoted plant parasitism ability in nematodes

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

Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

(2010) Naruo Nikoh et al.   PLoS Genetics

A fragile metabolic network adapted for cooperation in the symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

(2009) Gavin H Thomas et al.   BMC Systems Biology

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

Symbiotic bacteria enable insect to use a nutritionally inadequate diet

(2009) E Akman Gunduz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

Inherited intracellular ecosystem: symbiotic bacteria share bacteriocytes in whiteflies

(2008) Yuval Gottlieb et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

The Striking Case of Tryptophan Provision in the Cedar Aphid Cinara cedri

(2008) M. J. Gosalbes et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS

Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

(2008) Thomas D Schmittgen et al.   Nature Protocols

Enzymes of the shikimic acid pathway encoded in the genome of a basal metazoan, Nematostella vectensis, have microbial origins

(2008) A. Starcevic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA