Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years

Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years

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(2021) Quy Cao et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Localization of bacterial communities within gut compartments across Cephalotes turtle ants

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Gut bacteria are essential for normal cuticle development in herbivorous turtle ants

(2021) Christophe Duplais et al.   Nature Communications

Competition-based screening helps to secure the evolutionary stability of a defensive microbiome

(2021) Sarah F. Worsley et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Assessing Biosynthetic Gene Cluster Diversity of Specialized Metabolites in the Conserved Gut Symbionts of Herbivorous Turtle Ants

(2021) Anaïs Chanson et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Parasitoid Causes Cascading Effects on Plant-Induced Defenses Mediated Through the Gut Bacteria of Host Caterpillars

(2021) Jie Wang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Are you what you eat? A highly transient and prey‐influenced gut microbiome in the grey house spider Badumna longinqua

(2020) Susan R. Kennedy et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Disentangling the assembly mechanisms of ant cuticular bacterial communities of two Amazonian ant species sharing a common arboreal nest

(2020) Caroline Birer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Synergies Between Division of Labor and Gut Microbiomes of Social Insects

(2020) Veronica M. Sinotte et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Wolbachia-infected ant colonies have increased reproductive investment and an accelerated life cycle

(2020) Rohini Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Trait evolution is reversible, repeatable, and decoupled in the soldier caste of turtle ants

(2020) Scott Powell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont Digestive Range Reflects Host Plant Breadth in Herbivorous Beetles

(2020) Hassan Salem et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bacterial symbionts support larval sap feeding and adult folivory in (semi-)aquatic reed beetles

(2020) Frank Reis et al.   Nature Communications

Symbioses among ants and microbes

(2020) Corrie S Moreau   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Hindgut microbiota reflects different digestive strategies in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae)

(2020) Kathryn M Ebert et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

A selective fungal transport organ (mycangium) maintains coarse phylogenetic congruence between fungus-farming ambrosia beetles and their symbionts

(2019) James Skelton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Host plant and population source drive diversity of microbial gut communities in two polyphagous insects

(2019) Asher G. Jones et al.   Scientific Reports

What do we know about biological nitrogen fixation in insects? Evidence and implications for the insect and the ecosystem

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Long-lived Temnothorax ant queens switch from investment in immunity to antioxidant production with age

(2019) Matteo Antoine Negroni et al.   Scientific Reports

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(2019) Francisco Daniel Davila Aleman et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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(2019) Hideomi Itoh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Abdominal microbial communities in ants depend on colony membership rather than caste and are linked to colony productivity

(2019) Francisca H. I. D. Segers et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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(2019) Lucie Kešnerová et al.   ISME Journal

Efficient but occasionally imperfect vertical transmission of gut mutualistic protists in a wood‐feeding termite

(2019) Caroline Michaud et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The gut microbiome is associated with behavioural task in honey bees

(2018) J. C. Jones et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

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(2018) Angela E. Douglas   LAB ANIMAL

Host-Symbiont Cospeciation of Termite-Gut Cellulolytic Protists of the Genera Teranympha and Eucomonympha and their Treponema Endosymbionts

(2018) Satoko Noda et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Bacterial and Fungal Midgut Community Dynamics and Transfer Between Mother and Brood in the Asian Longhorned Beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), an Invasive Xylophage

(2018) Charles J. Mason et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Introduction: The host-associated microbiome: Pattern, process and function

(2018) Laura Wegener Parfrey et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Modulation of the honey bee queen microbiota: Effects of early social contact

(2018) J. Elijah Powell et al.   PLoS One

Symbiont switching and alternative resource acquisition strategies drive mutualism breakdown

(2018) Gijsbert D. A. Werner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome

(2018) Yi Hu et al.   Nature Communications

Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria

(2018) Inês S. Pais et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

How robust are popular beta diversity indices to sampling error?

(2018) P. Jason Schroeder et al.   Ecosphere

The queen’s gut refines with age: longevity phenotypes in a social insect model

(2018) Kirk E. Anderson et al.   Microbiome

Dietary specialization in mutualistic acacia-ants affects relative abundance but not identity of host-associated bacteria

(2018) Benjamin E. R. Rubin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecophylogenetics Clarifies the Evolutionary Association between Mammals and Their Gut Microbiota

(2018) Christopher A. Gaulke et al.   mBio

The Cost of Metabolic Interactions in Symbioses between Insects and Bacteria with Reduced Genomes

(2018) Nana Y. D. Ankrah et al.   mBio

Carbohydrate supply drives colony size, aggression, and impacts of an invasive ant

(2018) Sarah E. Wittman et al.   Ecosphere

Structure and function of the bacterial and fungal gut microbiota of Neotropical butterflies

(2018) Alison Ravenscraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Convergent evolution of complex structures for ant–bacterial defensive symbiosis in fungus-farming ants

(2018) Hongjie Li et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dramatic Differences in Gut Bacterial Densities Correlate with Diet and Habitat in Rainforest Ants

(2017) Jon G. Sanders et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Burying beetles regulate the microbiome of carcasses and use it to transmit a core microbiota to their offspring

(2017) Shantanu P. Shukla et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

By their own devices: invasive Argentine ants have shifted diet without clear aid from symbiotic microbes

(2017) Yi Hu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2017) Piotr Łukasik et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome

(2017) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Honeybee gut microbiota promotes host weight gain via bacterial metabolism and hormonal signaling

(2017) Hao Zheng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation

(2017) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Disentangling metabolic functions of bacteria in the honey bee gut

(2017) Lucie Kešnerová et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

How micronutrients influence the physiology of mosquitoes

(2017) Crisalejandra Rivera-Pérez et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Ecophysiology of Freshwater Verrucomicrobia Inferred from Metagenome-Assembled Genomes

(2017) Shaomei He et al.   mSphere

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(2017) Waldan K. Kwong et al.   Science Advances

Aryl Polyenes, a Highly Abundant Class of Bacterial Natural Products, Are Functionally Related to Antioxidative Carotenoids

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Tightly congruent bursts of lineage and phenotypic diversification identified in a continental ant radiation

(2016) Shauna L. Price et al.   EVOLUTION

Horizontal Gene Transfer Contributes to the Evolution of Arthropod Herbivory

(2016) Nicky Wybouw et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Characterization of the first cultured representative of Verrucomicrobia subdivision 5 indicates the proposal of a novel phylum

(2016) Stefan Spring et al.   ISME Journal

A bacterial filter protects and structures the gut microbiome of an insect

(2016) Michele Caroline Lanan et al.   ISME Journal

Parasaccharibacter apium, gen. nov., sp. nov., Improves Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Resistance toNosema

(2016) V. Corby-Harris et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Gut microbiota of dung beetles correspond to dietary specializations of adults and larvae

(2016) Shantanu P. Shukla et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Buchnera has changed flatmate but the repeated replacement of co-obligate symbionts is not associated with the ecological expansions of their aphid hosts

(2016) A. S. Meseguer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of obligate mealybug-tending ants in the genus Acropyga

(2016) Bonnie B. Blaimer et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Cellular and molecular remodelling of a host cell for vertical transmission of bacterial symbionts

(2016) Jun-Bo Luan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of food variability on growth and reproduction ofAedes aegypti

(2016) Michael Zeller et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Development of the Honey Bee Gut Microbiome throughout the Queen-Rearing Process

(2015) David R. Tarpy et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Insect-mediated nitrogen dynamics in decomposing wood

(2015) MICHAEL D. ULYSHEN   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole

(2015) Gordon M. Bennett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insect’s intestinal organ for symbiont sorting

(2015) Tsubasa Ohbayashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants

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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

Gut microbiota mediate caffeine detoxification in the primary insect pest of coffee

(2015) Javier A. Ceja-Navarro et al.   Nature Communications

Host and Symbiont Jointly Control Gut Microbiota during Complete Metamorphosis

(2015) Paul R. Johnston et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Gut Microbiota of an Invasive Subcortical Beetle,Agrilus planipennisFairmaire, Across Various Life Stages

(2015) Archana Vasanthakumar et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Variation in Honey Bee Gut Microbial Diversity Affected by Ontogenetic Stage, Age and Geographic Location

(2015) Zuzana Hroncova et al.   PLoS One

Caste-Specific Differences in Hindgut Microbial Communities of Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

(2015) Karen M. Kapheim et al.   PLoS One

Origin and Effect of Alpha 2.2 Acetobacteraceae in Honey Bee Larvae and Description of Parasaccharibacter apium gen. nov., sp. nov.

(2014) Vanessa Corby-Harris et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Routes of Acquisition of the Gut Microbiota of the Honey Bee Apis mellifera

(2014) J. Elijah Powell et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Gut Microbes Contribute to Nitrogen Provisioning in a Wood-Feeding Cerambycid

(2014) Paul Ayayee et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Minimum entropy decomposition: Unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences

(2014) A Murat Eren et al.   ISME Journal

Variation in gut microbial communities and its association with pathogen infection in wild bumble bees (Bombus)

(2014) Daniel P Cariveau et al.   ISME Journal

Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants

(2014) S. L. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Hive-stored pollen of honey bees: many lines of evidence are consistent with pollen preservation, not nutrient conversion

(2014) Kirk E. Anderson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Mosquitoes rely on their gut microbiota for development

(2014) Kerri L. Coon et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Plant-associated bacteria degrade defense chemicals and reduce their adverse effects on an insect defoliator

(2014) Charles J. Mason et al.   OECOLOGIA

Metamorphosis of a Butterfly-Associated Bacterial Community

(2014) Tobin J. Hammer et al.   PLoS One

Partner choice and fidelity stabilize coevolution in a Cretaceous-age defensive symbiosis

(2014) M. Kaltenpoth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Microbiota-Induced Changes in Drosophila melanogaster Host Gene Expression and Gut Morphology

(2014) N. A. Broderick et al.   mBio

Immune priming and pathogen resistance in ant queens

(2014) Dumas Gálvez et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The inconstant gut microbiota of Drosophila species revealed by 16S rRNA gene analysis

(2013) Adam C-N Wong et al.   ISME Journal

Exploring the bovine rumen bacterial community from birth to adulthood

(2013) Elie Jami et al.   ISME Journal

Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability

(2013) Yi Hu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity and evolutionary patterns of bacterial gut associates of corbiculate bees

(2013) Hauke Koch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

(2013) Jon G. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microbial Gut Diversity of Africanized and European Honey Bee Larval Instars

(2013) Svjetlana Vojvodic et al.   PLoS One

Frequent Replenishment Sustains the Beneficial Microbiome of Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) J. E. Blum et al.   mBio

Surveying the Microbiome of Ants: Comparing 454 Pyrosequencing with Traditional Methods To Uncover Bacterial Diversity

(2012) Stefanie Kautz et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

(2012) Vincent G. Martinson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

How to assemble a beneficial microbiome in three easy steps

(2012) István Scheuring et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species

(2012) KIRK E. ANDERSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Sailendharan Sudakaran et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Comparative Evaluation of the Gut Microbiota Associated with the Below- and Above-Ground Life Stages (Larvae and Beetles) of the Forest Cockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani

(2012) Erika Arias-Cordero et al.   PLoS One

Cellular mechanism for selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte-embryo interface

(2012) R. Koga et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

(2012) P. Engel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants

(2012) Natasha J. Mehdiabadi et al.   Nature Communications

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Low-diversity bacterial community in the gut of the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) Chun Nin Adam Wong et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Enterotypes of the human gut microbiome

(2011) Manimozhiyan Arumugam et al.   NATURE

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

(2011) J. L. Sachs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacterial Communities of Diverse Drosophila Species: Ecological Context of a Host–Microbe Model System

(2011) James Angus Chandler et al.   PLoS Genetics

Comparative Dating of Attine Ant and Lepiotaceous Cultivar Phylogenies Reveals Coevolutionary Synchrony and Discord

(2010) Alexander S. Mikheyev et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Bacteriocyte dynamics during development of a holometabolous insect, the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

(2010) Sascha Stoll et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The effects of age and social interactions on innate immunity in a leaf-cutting ant

(2010) Sophie A.O. Armitage et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The Olive Fly Endosymbiont, "Candidatus Erwinia dacicola," Switches from an Intracellular Existence to an Extracellular Existence during Host Insect Development

(2009) A. M. Estes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

(2009) Jennifer J Wernegreen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Communal Nutrition in Ants

(2009) Audrey Dussutour et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Sanctions, Cooperation, and the Stability of Plant-Rhizosphere Mutualisms

(2008) E. Toby Kiers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Ecological specialization and the evolution of a specialized caste inCephalotesants

(2008) Scott Powell   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Characterization and Evolution of Cell Division and Cell Wall Synthesis Genes in the Bacterial Phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and Phylogenetic Comparison with rRNA Genes

(2008) M. Pilhofer et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trichonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus

(2008) M. Ohkuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES