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

Assessment of bacterial endosymbiont diversity in Otiorhynchus spp. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) larvae using a multitag 454 pyrosequencing approach

(2012) Jacqueline Hirsch et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Assessment of bacterial diversity in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus through tag-encoded pyrosequencing

(2011) Renato Andreotti et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Lessons from Studying Insect Symbioses

(2011) Angela E. Douglas   Cell Host & Microbe

Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts

(2011) HEIKE FELDHAAR   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Bacterial Diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata Ant Colonies Characterized by 16S amplicon 454 Pyrosequencing

(2011) Heather D. Ishak et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Interactive Tree Of Life v2: online annotation and display of phylogenetic trees made easy

(2011) I. Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Antimicrobial Peptides Keep Insect Endosymbionts Under Control

(2011) F. H. Login et al.   SCIENCE

Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade ofEntomoplasmatalesBacteria

(2010) Colin F. Funaro et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Sampling and pyrosequencing methods for characterizing bacterial communities in the human gut using 16S sequence tags

(2010) Gary D Wu et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness

(2010) Anna Engelbrektson et al.   ISME Journal

Molecular and ultrastructural profiles of the symbionts in Cephalotes ants

(2010) M.L. Bution et al.   MICRON

The midgut of Cephalotes ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): Ultrastructure of the epithelium and symbiotic bacteria

(2010) Murillo L. Bution et al.   MICRON

Symbiotic bacteria and the structural specializations in the ileum of Cephalotes ants

(2010) Murillo L. Bution et al.   MICRON

Massively parallel 454-sequencing of fungal communities inQuercusspp. ectomycorrhizas indicates seasonal dynamics in urban and rural sites

(2010) ARI JUMPPONEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Seasonally dynamic fungal communities in the Quercus macrocarpa phyllosphere differ between urban and nonurban environments

(2010) A. Jumpponen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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

Disordered Microbial Communities in the Upper Respiratory Tract of Cigarette Smokers

(2010) Emily S. Charlson et al.   PLoS One

Impact of diet in shaping gut microbiota revealed by a comparative study in children from Europe and rural Africa

(2010) C. De Filippo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Associates of Arboreal Ants and Their Putative Functions in an Obligate Ant-Plant Mutualism

(2009) S. Eilmus et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

HOW TO PREVENT CHEATING: A DIGESTIVE SPECIALIZATION TIES MUTUALISTIC PLANT-ANTS TO THEIR ANT-PLANT PARTNERS

(2009) Stefanie Kautz et al.   EVOLUTION

Polygynous supercolonies of the acacia-ant Pseudomyrmex peperi, an inferior colony founder

(2009) S. KAUTZ et al.   MOLECULAR 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

Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus Gardens of Leaf-Cutter Ants

(2009) A. A. Pinto-Tomas et al.   SCIENCE

The Obligate Mutualist Wigglesworthia glossinidia Influences Reproduction, Digestion, and Immunity Processes of Its Host, the Tsetse Fly

(2008) R. Pais et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of the bacterial diversity in the feces of cattle using 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP)

(2008) Scot E Dowd et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

(2008) A. Dobson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Rapid Bootstrap Algorithm for the RAxML Web Servers

(2008) Alexandros Stamatakis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ileum of the Cephalotes ants: A specialized structure to harbor symbionts microorganisms

(2007) Murillo Lino Bution et al.   MICRON