ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2019
Disrupting butterfly caterpillar microbiomes does not impact their survival and development.
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- A microbial view on secondary contact between two Alpine butterflies.BMC ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Experimental evidence for the absence of a functional gut microbiome in the solitary bee Megachile tosticauda.FEMS microbiology letters · 2026Article
- Experimental Immigration Mediates Ecological Selection and Drift in Monarch Microbiome Assembly.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic and functional diversity amongmSystems · 2025Article
- Comparative gut microbiome research through the lens of ecology: theoretical considerations and best practices.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- The effect of diet composition on the diversity of active gut bacteria and on the growth of Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).Journal of insect science (Online) · 2024Article
- Complex plant quality-microbiota-population interactions modulate the response of a specialist herbivore to the defence of its host plant.Functional ecology · 2022Article
- Fungi are more transient than bacteria in caterpillar gut microbiomes.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The secret life of insect-associated microbes and how they shape insect-plant interactions.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2022Review
- Evolution, the Immune System, and the Health Consequences of Socioeconomic Inequality.mSystems · 2022Article
- Gut microbial composition in developmental stages of gall inducing thripsSaudi journal of biological sciences · 2022Article
- Neutral Processes Provide an Insight Into the Structure and Function of Gut Microbiota in the Cotton Bollworm.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- The Gut Microbiota Composition ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- The gut microbiota composition of Trichoplusia ni is altered by diet and may influence its polyphagous behavior.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Metagenomic Survey of the Highly PolyphagousFrontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Host plant diet affects growth and induces altered gene expression and microbiome composition in the wood white (Leptidea sinapis) butterfly.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
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- Gut bacterial communities and their contribution to performance of specialist Altica flea beetles.Microbial ecology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Associations with gut microbes are believed to play crucial roles in the physiology, immune function, development and behaviour of insects. However, microbiome sequencing has recently suggested that butterflies are an anomaly, because their microbiomes do not show strong host- and developmental stage-specific associations. We experimentally manipulated butterfly larval gut microbiota and found that disrupting gut microbes had little influence on larval survival and development. Larvae of the butterflies
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