Factors Limiting the Spread of the Protective Symbiont Hamiltonella defensa in Aphis craccivora Aphids

Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Fungal Pathogens in Pea Aphids: a Role for Pathogen Specificity?

(2013) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Cowpea aphid (Aphis craccivora) associated with different host plants has different facultative endosymbionts

(2013) CRISTINA M. BRADY et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

Worldwide Populations of the Aphid Aphis craccivora Are Infected with Diverse Facultative Bacterial Symbionts

(2013) Cristina M. Brady et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

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

Effects of parasitism on aphid nutritional and protective symbioses

(2013) Adam J. Martinez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The diversity and fitness effects of infection with facultative endosymbionts in the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae

(2013) Piotr Łukasik et al.   OECOLOGIA

Comparing constitutive and induced costs of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

(2013) Christoph Vorburger et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Phage loss and the breakdown of a defensive symbiosis in aphids

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

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2011) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

Development, specificity and sublethal effects of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids

(2011) Maike Schmid et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Only helpful when required: a longevity cost of harbouring defensive symbionts

(2011) C. VORBURGER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evidence for an Invasive Aphid “Superclone”: Extremely Low Genetic Diversity in Oleander Aphid (Aphis nerii) Populations in the Southern United States

(2011) John Scott Harrison et al.   PLoS One

Population genetics of beneficial heritable symbionts

(2011) John Jaenike   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiotic Bacterium Modifies Aphid Body Color

(2010) T. Tsuchida 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

Impact of environmental stress on aphid clonal resistance to parasitoids: Role of Hamiltonella defensa bacterial symbiosis in association with a new facultative symbiont of the pea aphid

(2009) Jean-Frédéric Guay et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Multifaceted determinants of host specificity in an aphid parasitoid

(2009) Nicolas Desneux et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Diverse Phage-Encoded Toxins in a Protective Insect Endosymbiont

(2008) P. H. Degnan et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2008) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

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