A facultative endosymbiont in aphids can provide diverse ecological benefits

Insect life history and the evolution of bacterial mutualism

(2015) Lee M. Henry et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patterns, causes and consequences of defensive microbiome dynamics across multiple scales

(2015) Andrew H. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Hannah R. Dykstra et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Arthropods and inherited bacteria: from counting the symbionts to understanding how symbionts count

(2013) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

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

Dynamics of the continent-wide spread of aDrosophiladefensive symbiont

(2013) Sarah N. Cockburn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

(2013) Allison K. Hansen 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

Evidence for Horizontal Transmission of Secondary Endosymbionts in the Bemisia tabaci Cryptic Species Complex

(2013) Muhammad Z. Ahmed et al.   PLoS One

Effects of Heat Shock on Resistance to Parasitoids and on Life History Traits in an Aphid/Endosymbiont System

(2013) Luis Cayetano et al.   PLoS One

Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

(2012) L. Gehrer et al.   Biology Letters

Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids

(2012) Kerry M Oliver et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance

(2012) Y. Kikuchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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

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

Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities

(2011) J. Ferrari et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Facultative Symbiont Infections Affect Aphid Reproduction

(2011) Jean-Christophe Simon et al.   PLoS One

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

Interspecific symbiont transfection confers a novel ecological trait to the recipient insect

(2010) T. Tsuchida et al.   Biology Letters

Anaplasma phagocytophilum induces Ixodes scapularis ticks to express an antifreeze glycoprotein gene that enhances their survival in the cold

(2010) Girish Neelakanta et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Spiroplasma Bacteria Enhance Survival of Drosophila hydei Attacked by the Parasitic Wasp Leptopilina heterotoma

(2010) Jialei Xie et al.   PLoS One

Effects of bacterial secondary symbionts on host plant use in pea aphids

(2010) A. H. C. McLean et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

A continuum of genetic divergence from sympatric host races to species in the pea aphid complex

(2009) J. Peccoud 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

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

Evolution of the Secondary Symbiont "Candidatus Serratia symbiotica" in Aphid Species of the Subfamily Lachninae

(2008) A. Lamelas et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Diverse Phage-Encoded Toxins in a Protective Insect Endosymbiont

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

POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION AND GENETIC VARIATION IN PERFORMANCE ON EIGHT HOSTS IN THE PEA APHID COMPLEX

(2008) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

How many species are infected with Wolbachia? – a statistical analysis of current data

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Luís Teixeira et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Impact of plant nutrients on the relationship between a herbivorous insect and its symbiotic bacteria

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