ReviewJournal of chemical ecology2013
Microbial brokers of insect-plant interactions revisited.
Review in Journal of chemical ecology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 122 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Co-option of a conserved host glutamine transporter facilitates aphid/Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Naturally Occurring Yeasts Associated withPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Specific Enriched Acinetobacter inMicrobiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Aphid species specializing on milkweed harbor taxonomically similar bacterial communities that differ in richness and relative abundance of core symbionts.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Larval gut microbiome of Pelidnota luridipes (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): high bacterial diversity, different metabolic profiles on gut chambers and species with probiotic potential.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2022Article
- Soil-derived bacteria endow Camellia weevil with more ability to resist plant chemical defense.Microbiome · 2022Article
- Nitrogen Acquisition Strategies Mediated by Insect Symbionts: A Review of Their Mechanisms, Methodologies, and Case Studies.Insects · 2022Review
- Differing Dietary Nutrients and Diet-Associated Bacteria Has Limited Impact on Spider Gut Microbiota Composition.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- Gut bacterial communities and their contribution to performance of specialist Altica flea beetles.Microbial ecology · 2020Article
- Genomic Signatures of Honey Bee Association in an Acetic Acid Symbiont.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- Bacteria Contribute to Plant Secondary Compound Degradation in a Generalist Herbivore System.mBio · 2020Article
- Yeasts Influence Host Selection and Larval Fitness in Two Frugivorous Carpophilus Beetle Species.Journal of chemical ecology · 2020Article
- Most dominant roles of insect gut bacteria: digestion, detoxification, or essential nutrient provision?Microbiome · 2020Article
- Comparative Microbiomics of Tephritid Frugivorous Pests (Diptera: Tephritidae) From the Field: A Tale of High Variability Across and Within Species.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- The host fruit amplifies mutualistic interaction between Ceratitis capitata larvae and associated bacteria.BMC biotechnology · 2019Article
- Structural Differences in the Digestive Tract Between Females and Males Could Modulate Regurgitation Behavior in Anastrepha ludens (Diptera: Tephritidae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2019Article
- Effect of Diet Supplemented With Rapeseed Meal or Hydrolysable Tannins on the Growth, Nutrition, and Intestinal Microbiota in Grass Carp (Frontiers in nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
Recent advances in sequencing methods have transformed the field of microbial ecology, making it possible to determine the composition and functional capabilities of uncultured microorganisms. These technologies have been instrumental in the recognition that resident microorganisms can have profound effects on the phenotype and fitness of their animal hosts by modulating the animal signaling networks that regulate growth, development, behavior, etc. Against this backdrop, this review assesses the impact of microorganisms on insect-plant interactions, in the context of the hypothesis that microorganisms are biochemical brokers of plant utilization by insects. There is now overwhelming evidence for a microbial role in insect utilization of certain plant diets with an extremely low or unbalanced nutrient content. Specifically, microorganisms enable insect utilization of plant sap by synthesizing essential amino acids. They also can broker insect utilization of plant products of extremely high lignocellulose content, by enzymatic breakdown of complex plant polysaccharides, nitrogen fixation, and sterol synthesis. However, the experimental evidence for microbial-mediated detoxification of plant allelochemicals is limited. The significance of microorganisms as brokers of plant utilization by insects is predicted to vary, possibly widely, as a result of potentially complex interactions between the composition of the microbiota and the diet and insect developmental age or genotype. For every insect species feeding on plant material, the role of resident microbiota as biochemical brokers of plant utilization is a testable hypothesis.
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