ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2012
Mutualism meltdown in insects: bacteria constrain thermal adaptation.
Review in Current opinion in microbiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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75 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of heat stress on the fitness outcomes of symbiotic infection in aphids: a meta-analysis.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Pooled it
- Spatial and Temporal Structure of Environmentally-Acquired Caballeronia Symbionts of a Leaffooted Bug.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Evolutionary signals in metabolic networks of insect endosymbionts revealed through comparative topological modeling.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Lighting the way: how the squid-Vibrio model can inform thermal impacts on symbiotic dynamics.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Review
- The role of a viral symbiont in the thermal mismatch of host-parasitoid interactions.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026Article
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- Exploring climate-related gut microbiome variation in bumble bees: An experimental and observational perspective.Ecology · 2025Article
- Host metabolite production and microbiome dynamics: effects of long-term diatom adaptation to warming.ISME communications · 2025Article
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- Feeding Drosophila gut microbiomes from young and old flies modifies the microbiome.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Environmental Factors and the Symbiont Cardinium Influence the Bacterial Microbiome of Spider Mites Across the Landscape.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Effects of heat tolerance on the gut microbiota of Sarcophaga peregrina (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) and impacts on the life history traits.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Urbanization and edge effects interact to drive mutualism breakdown and the rise of unstable pathogenic communities in forest soil.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Host species differences in the thermal mismatch of host-parasitoid interactions.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Captivity and Animal Microbiomes: Potential Roles of Microbiota for Influencing Animal Conservation.Microbial ecology · 2023Review
- Still standing: The heat protection delivered by a facultative symbiont to its aphid host is resilient to repeated thermal stress.Current research in insect science · 2023Article
- Adapting to climate with limited genetic diversity: Nucleotide, DNA methylation and microbiome variation among populations of the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola.Molecular ecology · 2022Article
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- Obligate mutualistic cooperation limits evolvability.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Association of Gut Microbiota With Metabolism in Rainbow Trout Under Acute Heat Stress.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Predicting whether and how organisms will successfully cope with climate change presents critical questions for biologists and environmental scientists. Models require knowing how organisms interact with their abiotic environment, as well understanding biotic interactions that include a network of symbioses in which all species are embedded. Bacterial symbionts of insects offer valuable models to examine how microbes can facilitate and constrain adaptation to a changing environment. While some symbionts confer plasticity that accelerates adaptation, long-term bacterial mutualists of insects are characterized by tight lifestyle constraints, genome deterioration, and vulnerability to thermal stress. These essential bacterial partners are eliminated at high temperatures, analogous to the loss of zooanthellae during coral bleaching. Recent field-based studies suggest that thermal sensitivity of bacterial mutualists constrains insect responses. In this sense, highly dependent mutualisms may be the Achilles' heel of thermal responses in insects.
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