Aphids evolved novel secreted proteins for symbiosis with bacterial endosymbiont

Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont

(2011) Shuji Shigenobu et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Cysteine-Rich Peptides (CRPs) mediate diverse aspects of cell-cell communication in plant reproduction and development

(2011) E. Marshall et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Aphid genome expression reveals host-symbiont cooperation in the production of amino acids

(2011) A. K. Hansen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural roles of antimicrobial peptides in microbes, plants and animals

(2011) Gergely Maróti et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

A full-length cDNA resource for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010) S. Shigenobu et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Comprehensive survey of developmental genes in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: frequent lineage-specific duplications and losses of developmental genes

(2010) S. Shigenobu et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis

(2010) W. Van de Velde et al.   SCIENCE

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

(2010)   PLOS BIOLOGY

Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

(2010) Naruo Nikoh et al.   PLoS Genetics

DEGseq: an R package for identifying differentially expressed genes from RNA-seq data

(2009) Likun Wang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Aphids acquired symbiotic genes via lateral gene transfer

(2009) Naruo Nikoh et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Identification and Gene Expression Analysis of a Taxonomically Restricted Cysteine-Rich Protein Family in Reef-Building Corals

(2009) Shinichi Sunagawa et al.   PLoS One

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

(2009) Ben Langmead et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY