Symbiotic microbiota may reflect host adaptation by resident to invasive ant species

Host-plant dissections reveal contrasting distributions of Crematogaster ants and their symbionts in two myrmecophytic Macaranga species

(2018) Mickal Y.I. Houadria et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Consistent changes in the taxonomic structure and functional attributes of bacterial communities during primary succession

(2018) Rüdiger Ortiz-Álvarez et al.   ISME Journal

Genetic diversity and colony structure of Tapinoma melanocephalum on the islands and mainland of South China

(2018) Chunyan Zheng et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants

(2017) Piotr Łukasik et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gut symbiont enhances insecticide resistance in a significant pest, the oriental fruit fly Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel)

(2017) Daifeng Cheng et al.   Microbiome

Population genetics and symbiont assemblages support opposing invasion scenarios for the red turpentine beetle (Dendroctonus valens)

(2016) Stephen J. Taerum et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Effects of co-occurring Wolbachia and Spiroplasma endosymbionts on the Drosophila immune response against insect pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria

(2016) Upasana Shokal et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Mucin–Microbiota Interaction During Postnatal Maturation of the Intestinal Ecosystem: Clinical Implications

(2016) Sana Rokhsefat et al.   DIGESTIVE DISEASES AND SCIENCES

Current knowledge of interactions between Drosophila suzukii and microbes, and their potential utility for pest management

(2016) Kelly A. Hamby et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Gut Microbiotas and Host Evolution: Scaling Up Symbiosis

(2016) Michael Shapira   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Global threats from invasive alien species in the twenty-first century and national response capacities

(2016) Regan Early et al.   Nature Communications

Climate and the Timing of Imported Cases as Determinants of the Dengue Outbreak in Guangzhou, 2014: Evidence from a Mathematical Model

(2016) Qu Cheng et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Termites utilise clay to build structural supports and so increase foraging resources

(2016) Sebastian Oberst et al.   Scientific Reports

Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms

(2015) Angela E. Douglas   Annual Review of Entomology

The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution

(2015) Andreas Brune et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Potential applications of insect symbionts in biotechnology

(2015) Aileen Berasategui et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Control of Brain Development, Function, and Behavior by the Microbiome

(2015) Timothy R. Sampson et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

Host promiscuity in symbiont associations can influence exotic legume establishment and colonization of novel ranges

(2015) Metha M. Klock et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A single ectomycorrhizal fungal species can enable aPinusinvasion

(2015) Jeremy Hayward et al.   ECOLOGY

Defensive symbioses of animals with prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms

(2015) Laura V. Flórez et al.   NATURAL PRODUCT REPORTS

The Impact of Host Diet on Wolbachia Titer in Drosophila

(2015) Laura R. Serbus et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Mutualistic Interactions and Biological Invasions

(2014) Anna Traveset et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Interspecific competition between the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren and ghost ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum Fabricius for honeydew resources produced by an invasive mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsiley

(2014) Aiming Zhou et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Growth disturbance of extracts from several crops straw (residue) on Ageratina adenophora and biological-control implications in hazardous weed invasion for eco-restoration

(2014) Fu-ke Yu et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Impacts of Ageratina adenophora invasion on soil physical–chemical properties of Eucalyptus plantation and implications for constructing agro-forest ecosystem

(2014) Fu-ke Yu et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

What can symbiont titres tell us about co-evolution of Wolbachia and their host?

(2014) C. Carolina Correa et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Macronutrients mediate the functional relationship between Drosophila and Wolbachia

(2014) F. Ponton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vitamin supplementation by gut symbionts ensures metabolic homeostasis in an insect host

(2014) H. Salem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Submissive behaviour and habituation facilitate entry into habitat occupied by an invasive ant

(2013) Eleanor Spicer Rice et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Predictive functional profiling of microbial communities using 16S rRNA marker gene sequences

(2013) Morgan G I Langille et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Evolution of lactic acid bacteria in the order Lactobacillales as depicted by analysis of glycolysis and pentose phosphate pathways

(2013) Elisa Salvetti et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Gut Microbiota Composition and Activity in Relation to Host Metabolic Phenotype and Disease Risk

(2012) Elaine Holmes et al.   Cell Metabolism

Unrelated facultative endosymbionts protect aphids against a fungal pathogen

(2012) Piotr Łukasik et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiome

(2012)   NATURE

Naturalization of introduced plants: ecological drivers of biogeographical patterns

(2012) David M. Richardson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanation

(2011) Nicola Segata et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

The Human Gut Microbiome: Ecology and Recent Evolutionary Changes

(2010) Jens Walter et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

High polyphenol, low probiotic diet for weight loss because of intestinal microbiota interaction

(2010) Reza Rastmanesh   CHEMICO-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS

Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering

(2010) Susan M. Huse et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inherited fungal symbionts enhance establishment of an invasive annual grass across successional habitats

(2010) Andrea Uchitel et al.   OECOLOGIA

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Supercolony mosaics: two different invasions by the yellow crazy ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes, on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean

(2009) Melissa L. Thomas et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell 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

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

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