Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

Rickettsia influences thermotolerance in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci B biotype

(2011) Marina Brumin et al.   Insect Science

WolbachiawSinvictaA Infections in Natural Populations of the Fire AntSolenopsis invicta: Testing for Phenotypic Effects

(2011) Andrew M. Bouwma et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Symbiont diversity and non-random hybridization among indigenous (Ms) and invasive (B) biotypes of Bemisia tabaci

(2011) M. THIERRY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

Bemisia tabaci: A Statement of Species Status

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

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

(2010) T. Tsuchida et al.   Biology Letters

Host Defence: Getting By with a Little Help from Our Friends

(2010) Gregory D.D. Hurst et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Transmission Efficiency of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus by the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci Is Correlated with the Presence of a Specific Symbiotic Bacterium Species

(2010) Y. Gottlieb et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

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

(2010) GWÉNAELLE GUEGUEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

(2010) Johannes Kroiss et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Symbiotic streptomycetes in antennal glands of the South American digger wasp genus Trachypus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

(2010) MARTIN KALTENPOTH et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2010) Jialei Xie et al.   PLoS One

The Native Wolbachia Endosymbionts of Drosophila melanogaster and Culex quinquefasciatus Increase Host Resistance to West Nile Virus Infection

(2010) Robert L. Glaser et al.   PLoS One

Plant green-island phenotype induced by leaf-miners is mediated by bacterial symbionts

(2010) W. Kaiser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Insect endosymbionts: manipulators of insect herbivore trophic interactions?

(2010) Emily L. Clark et al.   PROTOPLASMA

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

The evolution of animals and plants via symbiosis with microorganisms

(2010) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The Ecology and Evolution of Microbes that Manipulate Host Reproduction

(2009) Jan Engelstädter et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

(2009) Kerry M. Oliver et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

The Olive Fly Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola," Switches from an Intracellular Existence to an Extracellular Existence during Host Insect Development

(2009) A. M. Estes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids

(2009) C. Vorburger et al.   Biology Letters

Microbial modification of host long-distance dispersal capacity

(2009) Sara L Goodacre et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

(2009) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Effects of symbiotic bacteria and tree chemistry on the growth and reproduction of bark beetle fungal symbionts

(2009) A.S. Adams et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A Wolbachia Symbiont in Aedes aegypti Limits Infection with Dengue, Chikungunya, and Plasmodium

(2009) Luciano A. Moreira et al.   CELL

Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects

(2009) Cara M. Gibson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Demography of Gut Symbiotic and Aposymbiotic Nezara viridula L. (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

(2009) Simone S. Prado et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

The hologenome theory of evolution contains Lamarckian aspects within a Darwinian framework

(2009) Eugene Rosenberg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

GENOTYPIC VARIATION AND THE ROLE OF DEFENSIVE ENDOSYMBIONTS IN AN ALL-PARTHENOGENETIC HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION

(2009) Christoph Vorburger et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Invasive and indigenous microbiota impact intestinal stem cell activity through multiple pathways in Drosophila

(2009) N. Buchon et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

(2009) R. Sen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

(2009) T. Hosokawa 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

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Species Response to Environmental Change: Impacts of Food Web Interactions and Evolution

(2009) J. P. Harmon et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiont-mediated protection in insect hosts

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

Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for Metabolic Provisioning by a Common Invertebrate Endosymbiont, Wolbachia pipientis, during Periods of Nutritional Stress

(2009) Jeremy C. Brownlie et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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

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

(2008) Olivier Duron et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Transcriptional profiling of the endosymbiontBlochmannia floridanusduring different developmental stages of its holometabolous ant host

(2008) Sascha Stoll et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PHYTOPHAGOUS INSECT–MICROBE MUTUALISMS AND ADAPTIVE EVOLUTIONARY DIVERSIFICATION

(2008) Eric M. Janson et al.   EVOLUTION

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

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Immune reactions of insects on bacterial pathogens and mutualists

(2008) Heike Feldhaar et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

The genetic mosaic suggests a new role for hitchhiking in ecological speciation

(2008) SARA VIA et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2008) Andrés Moya et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

(2008) John H. Werren et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic variation and covariation of susceptibility to parasitoids in the aphid Myzus persicae: no evidence for trade-offs

(2008) S. von Burg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

(2008) L. M. Hedges et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) Luís Teixeira et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Symbiont acquisition alters behaviour of stinkbug nymphs

(2007) T. Hosokawa et al.   Biology Letters

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

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

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