ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2016
Insect symbionts in food webs.
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- Endosymbiont-mediated resistance: effects of Hamiltonella defensa (Enterobacterales: Enterobacteriaceae) on parasitism of Aphidius colemani and Praon volucre (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) in Aphis craccivora (Hemiptera: Aphididae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2026Article
- Xenopsylla buxtoni fleas as a dominant species harboring multiple infections of Wolbachia lineages in the ancient plague epicenters of Iran.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Ecological Mercenaries: Why Aphids Remain Premier Models for the Study of Ecological Symbiosis.Insects · 2025Review
- Metabolism, digestion, and horizontal transfer: potential roles and interaction of symbiotic bacteria in the ladybird beetleMicrobiology spectrum · 2024Article
- DeconstructingiScience · 2023Article
- Floral presence and flower identity alter cereal aphid endosymbiont communities on adjacent crops.The Journal of applied ecology · 2023Article
- Microbiome Structure of a WildApplied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- A soil fungus confers plant resistance against a phytophagous insect by disrupting the symbiotic role of its gut microbiota.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Gene gain facilitated endosymbiotic evolution of Chlamydiae.Nature microbiology · 2023Article
- Aphid species specializing on milkweed harbor taxonomically similar bacterial communities that differ in richness and relative abundance of core symbionts.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Bottom-up effect of host protective symbionts on parasitoid diversity: Limited evidence from two field experiments.The Journal of animal ecology · 2022Article
- Insecticide resistance by a host-symbiont reciprocal detoxification.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Parasitism by endoparasitoid wasps alters the internal but not the external microbiome in host caterpillars.Animal microbiome · 2021Article
- Ontogeny, species identity, and environment dominate microbiome dynamics in wild populations of kissing bugs (Triatominae).Microbiome · 2020Article
- Effects, interactions, and localization of Rickettsia and Wolbachia in the house fly parasitoid, Spalangia endius.Microbial ecology · 2020Article
- Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities.Ecology and evolution · 2020Review
- Cohabitation and roommate bias of symbiotic bacteria in insect hosts.Molecular ecology · 2019Article
- The draft genome of strainPeerJ · 2019Article
- Model Microbial Consortia as Tools for Understanding Complex Microbial Communities.Current genomics · 2018Review
- Lignocellulose degradation at the holobiont level: teamwork in a keystone soil invertebrate.Microbiome · 2018Article
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Abstract
Recent research has shown that the bacterial endosymbionts of insects are abundant and diverse, and that they have numerous different effects on their hosts' biology. Here we explore how insect endosymbionts might affect the structure and dynamics of insect communities. Using the obligate and facultative symbionts of aphids as an example, we find that there are multiple ways that symbiont presence might affect food web structure. Many symbionts are now known to help their hosts escape or resist natural enemy attack, and others can allow their hosts to withstand abiotic stress or affect host plant use. In addition to the direct effect of symbionts on aphid phenotypes there may be indirect effects mediated through trophic and non-trophic community interactions. We believe that by using data from barcoding studies to identify bacterial symbionts, this extra, microbial dimension to insect food webs can be better elucidated.This article is part of the themed issue 'From DNA barcodes to biomes'.
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