Protection against a fungal pathogen conferred by the aphid facultative endosymbiontsRickettsiaandSpiroplasmais expressed in multiple host genotypes and species and is not influenced by co-infection with another symbiont

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

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

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

(2013) Piotr Łukasik et al.   OECOLOGIA

Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids

(2012) L. Gehrer et al.   Biology Letters

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Grain aphid clones vary in frost resistance, but this trait is not influenced by facultative endosymbionts

(2011) PIOTR ŁUKASIK et al.   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

Co-infection and localization of secondary symbionts in two whitefly species

(2010) Marisa Skaljac et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Endosymbiont costs and benefits in a parasitoid infected with both Wolbachia and Cardinium

(2010) J A White et al.   HEREDITY

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

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

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

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

Evolution and diversity of Rickettsia bacteria

(2009) Lucy A Weinert et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

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

(2009) Christoph Vorburger et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Association between Wolbachia and Spiroplasma within Drosophila neotestacea: an emerging symbiotic mutualism?

(2009) JOHN JAENIKE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Interactions between vertically transmitted symbionts: cooperation or conflict?

(2009) Emilie Vautrin et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

(2008) Julia Ferrari et al.   EVOLUTION

Inherited intracellular ecosystem: symbiotic bacteria share bacteriocytes in whiteflies

(2008) Yuval Gottlieb et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

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

(2008) Kirsten Hilgenboecker et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids

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