Defensive symbiosis in the real world - advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

Chemical cues mediating aphid location by natural enemies

(2014) Eduardo HATANO et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY

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

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

Uncovering symbiont-driven genetic diversity across North American pea aphids

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

Modeling the Ecology of Symbiont-Mediated Protection against Parasites

(2012) Marek Kwiatkowski et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Parasitic wasp responses to symbiont-based defense in aphids

(2012) Kerry M Oliver et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Diversity and recombination in Wolbachia and Cardinium from Bryobia spider mites

(2012) Vera I D Ros et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

(2012) Hauke Koch et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Wolbachiain a major African crop pest increases susceptibility to viral disease rather than protects

(2012) Robert I. Graham et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does variation in host plant association and symbiont infection of pea aphid populations induce genetic and behaviour differentiation of its main parasitoid, Aphidius ervi?

(2012) Emilie Bilodeau et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

A Veritable Menagerie of Heritable Bacteria from Ants, Butterflies, and Beyond: Broad Molecular Surveys and a Systematic Review

(2012) Jacob A. Russell 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

On Genetic Specificity in Symbiont-Mediated Host-Parasite Coevolution

(2012) Marek Kwiatkowski et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

The Relative Importance of Innate Immune Priming in Wolbachia-Mediated Dengue Interference

(2012) Edwige Rancès et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Solving the Wolbachia Paradox: Modeling the Tripartite Interaction between Host, Wolbachia, and a Natural Enemy

(2011) Andrew Fenton et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Bacterial Communities of Two Parthenogenetic Aphid Species Cocolonizing Two Host Plants across the Hawaiian Islands

(2011) Ryan T. Jones et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Caught in the act: Rapid, symbiont-driven evolution

(2011) Jennifer A. White   BIOESSAYS

Symbiont infection affects aphid defensive behaviours

(2011) E. Dion et al.   Biology Letters

MAINTENANCE OF A MALE-KILLING WOLBACHIA IN DROSOPHILA INNUBILA BY MALE-KILLING DEPENDENT AND MALE-KILLING INDEPENDENT MECHANISMS

(2011) Robert L. Unckless et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Massive Genomic Decay in Serratia symbiotica, a Recently Evolved Symbiont of Aphids

(2011) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genomic basis of endosymbiont-conferred protection against an insect parasitoid

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Rapid evolution of parasitoids when faced with the symbiont-mediated resistance of their hosts

(2011) E. DION et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

Characterisation of immune responses in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2011) Alice M. Laughton et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Chemical Analyses of Wasp-Associated Streptomyces Bacteria Reveal a Prolific Potential for Natural Products Discovery

(2011) Michael Poulsen et al.   PLoS One

Facultative Symbiont Infections Affect Aphid Reproduction

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

Wolbachia induces reactive oxygen species (ROS)-dependent activation of the Toll pathway to control dengue virus in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

(2011) X. Pan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal transmission of the insect symbiont Rickettsia is plant-mediated

(2011) A. Caspi-Fluger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Non-immunological defense in an evolutionary framework

(2011) Benjamin J. Parker et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Population genetics of beneficial heritable symbionts

(2011) John Jaenike   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spiroplasma as a model insect endosymbiont

(2011) Hisashi Anbutsu et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Wolbachia Infections Are Virulent and Inhibit the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium Falciparum in Anopheles Gambiae

(2011) Grant L. Hughes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Water availability alters the tri-trophic consequences of a plant-fungal symbiosis

(2010) Kelsey M. Yule et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Defensive endosymbionts: a cryptic trophic level in community ecology

(2010) John Jaenike et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dynamics of a Recurrent Buchnera Mutation That Affects Thermal Tolerance of Pea Aphid Hosts

(2010) Gaelen R. Burke et al.   GENETICS

Diversity and infection prevalence of endosymbionts in natural populations of the chestnut weevil: relevance of local climate and host plants

(2010) HIROKAZU TOJU et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

(2010) Johannes Kroiss et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Fungal endophytes of native grasses decrease insect herbivore preference and performance

(2010) Kerri M. Crawford et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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 Endosymbiotic Bacterium Wolbachia Induces Resistance to Dengue Virus in Aedes aegypti

(2010) Guowu Bian et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Wolbachia Stimulates Immune Gene Expression and Inhibits Plasmodium Development in Anopheles gambiae

(2010) Zakaria Kambris et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

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

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

(2009) C. Vorburger et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2009) Luciano A. Moreira et al.   CELL

Wolbachia: more than just a bug in insects genitals

(2009) Aggeliki Saridaki et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

Variable Incidence of Spiroplasma Infections in Natural Populations of Drosophila Species

(2009) Thomas Watts et al.   PLoS One

Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis

(2009) S. Haeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Post-Pleistocene radiation of the pea aphid complex revealed by rapidly evolving endosymbionts

(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

Immune Activation by Life-Shortening Wolbachia and Reduced Filarial Competence in Mosquitoes

(2009) Z. Kambris et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2009) J. P. Harmon et al.   SCIENCE

Variation in Antiviral Protection Mediated by Different Wolbachia Strains in Drosophila simulans

(2009) Sheree E. Osborne et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

Negative Effects of Low Temperatures on the Vertical Transmission and Infection Density of a Spiroplasma Endosymbiont in Drosophila hydei

(2008) Ryu Osaka et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Parasitoids and Dipteran Predators Exploit Volatiles from Microbial Symbionts to Locate Bark Beetles

(2008) Celia K. Boone et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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

Neotyphodium endophyte infection frequency in annual grass populations: relative importance of mutualism and transmission efficiency

(2008) P. E Gundel 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

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

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

Symbiont-mediated protection

(2007) E. R Haine   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES