Angiosperm to Gymnosperm host‐plant switch entails shifts in microbiota of the Welwitschia bug, Probergrothius angolensis (Distant, 1902)

An antifungal polyketide associated with horizontally acquired genes supports symbiont-mediated defense in Lagria villosa beetles

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Genomic changes associated with the evolutionary transition of an insect gut symbiont into a blood-borne pathogen

(2017) Francisca HID Segers et al.   ISME Journal

Ancient symbiosis confers desiccation resistance to stored grain pest beetles

(2017) Tobias Engl et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gut microbiota of the pine weevil degrades conifer diterpenes and increases insect fitness

(2017) Aileen Berasategui et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Antibiotic-producing symbionts dynamically transition between plant pathogenicity and insect-defensive mutualism

(2017) Laura V. Flórez et al.   Nature Communications

Phylogenetic Evidence for Ancient and Persistent Environmental Symbiont Reacquisition in Largidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

(2016) Eric Robert Lucien Gordon et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bartonella apis sp. nov., a honey bee gut symbiont of the class Alphaproteobacteria

(2016) Lucie Kešnerová et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

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(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

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(2016) Angela E. Douglas   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

COI-based DNA barcoding of some species of Pentatomidae from North India (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

(2016) Harbhajan Kaur et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part A

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(2015) Hassan Salem et al.   Biology Letters

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(2015) Simon M Cragg et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

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(2015) Steven M. Wagner et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Evolutionary transition in symbiotic syndromes enabled diversification of phytophagous insects on an imbalanced diet

(2015) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   ISME Journal

Burkholderia of Plant-Beneficial Group are Symbiotically Associated with Bordered Plant Bugs (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoroidea: Largidae)

(2015) Kazutaka Takeshita et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

An out-of-body experience: the extracellular dimension for the transmission of mutualistic bacteria in insects

(2015) H. Salem et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Vitamin B 12 as a Modulator of Gut Microbial Ecology

(2014) Patrick H. Degnan et al.   Cell Metabolism

Draft genome sequences of threeHolosporaspecies (Holospora obtusa,Holospora undulata, andHolospora elegans), endonuclear symbiotic bacteria of the ciliateParamecium caudatum

(2014) Hideo Dohra et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Testing the Potential of Proposed DNA Barcoding Markers inNezara virudulaandNezara antennataWhen Geographic Variation and Closely Related Species Were Considered

(2014) Min Li et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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

How resident microbes modulate ecologically-important traits of insects

(2014) Kerry M Oliver et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Horizontally Transmitted Symbionts and Host Colonization of Ecological Niches

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

Plant Defense against Insect Herbivores

(2013) Joel Fürstenberg-Hägg et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Population genomics of a symbiont in the early stages of a pest invasion

(2013) Amanda M. V. Brown et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The impact of microbial symbionts on host plant utilization by herbivorous insects

(2013) Allison K. Hansen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks

(2013) Pelin Yilmaz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Gut bacteria facilitate adaptation to crop rotation in the western corn rootworm

(2013) C.-C. Chu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Actinobacteria as essential symbionts in firebugs and cotton stainers (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Hassan Salem et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Co-evolution and symbiont replacement shaped the symbiosis between adelgids (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) and their bacterial symbionts

(2012) Elena R. Toenshoff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Draft Genome Sequence of Commensalibacter intestini A911T, a Symbiotic Bacterium Isolated from Drosophila melanogaster Intestine

(2012) E.-K. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Geographical and ecological stability of the symbiotic mid-gut microbiota in European firebugs,Pyrrhocoris apterus(Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae)

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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(2012) Y. Kikuchi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Refactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytoca

(2012) K. Temme et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insect symbionts as hidden players in insect–plant interactions

(2012) Enric Frago et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Rickettsia influences thermotolerance in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci B biotype

(2011) Marina Brumin et al.   Insect Science

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Acetic Acid Bacteria, Newly Emerging Symbionts of Insects

(2010) E. Crotti et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

An ancient but promiscuous host–symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts

(2010) Yoshitomo Kikuchi et al.   ISME Journal

Insecticidal activity of (2n-octylcycloprop-1-enyl)-octanoic acid (I) against three Coleopteran stored product insects from Sterculia foetida (L.)

(2010) Pathipati Usha Rani et al.   JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

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

Bacteria on housefly eggs, Musca domestica, suppress fungal growth in chicken manure through nutrient depletion or antifungal metabolites

(2009) Kevin Lam et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Phylogenetic Characterization of Two Novel Commensal Bacteria Involved with Innate Immune Homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) S. W. Roh et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Inducible direct plant defense against insect herbivores: A review

(2008) Ming-Shun Chen   Insect Science

Infection of the cones and seeds of Welwitschia mirabilis by Aspergillus niger var. phoenicis in the Namib-Naukluft Park

(2007) C. Whitaker et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY