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A Phylogenomic View of Ecological Specialization in the Lachnospiraceae, a Family of Digestive Tract-Associated Bacteria

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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

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The Epidemiology and Evolution of Symbionts with Mixed-Mode Transmission

(2013) Dieter Ebert   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Evolutionary replacement of obligate symbionts in an ancient and diverse insect lineage

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Small, Smaller, Smallest: The Origins and Evolution of Ancient Dual Symbioses in a Phloem-Feeding Insect

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Diversification of endosymbiosis: replacements, co-speciation and promiscuity of bacteriocyte symbionts in weevils

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Ribosomal Database Project: data and tools for high throughput rRNA analysis

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Complete genome sequence of Coriobacterium glomerans type strain (PW2T) from the midgut of Pyrrhocoris apterus L. (red soldier bug)

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Phylogenetic, Metabolic, and Taxonomic Diversities Shape Mediterranean Fruit Fly Microbiotas during Ontogeny

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Diversity of Symbiotic Organs and Bacterial Endosymbionts of Lygaeoid Bugs of the Families Blissidae and Lygaeidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea)

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Polyphyly of Gut Symbionts in Stinkbugs of the Family Cydnidae

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The Bacterial Community in the Gut of the Cockroach Shelfordella lateralis Reflects the Close Evolutionary Relatedness of Cockroaches and Termites

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SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

(2012) Elmar Pruesse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CD-HIT: accelerated for clustering the next-generation sequencing data

(2012) Limin Fu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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Higher Level Phylogeny and the First Divergence Time Estimation of Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) Based on Multiple Genes

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

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

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Phylogenetic Position and Peculiar Genetic Traits of a Midgut Bacterial Symbiont of the Stinkbug Parastrachia japonensis

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

An ancient but promiscuous host–symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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Bacterial Gut Symbionts Contribute to Seed Digestion in an Omnivorous Beetle

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PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

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Localization and transmission route of Coriobacterium glomerans, the endosymbiont of pyrrhocorid bugs

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus Gardens of Leaf-Cutter Ants

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Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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Comparative and phylogenomic studies on the mitochondrial genomes of Pentatomomorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

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