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How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts.
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- Host and microbial factors influence bacterial colonization of the honey bee gut.The ISME journal · 2026Article
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- A heritable RNA virus facilitates egg hatching of a parasitoid wasp.Annals of the Entomological Society of America · 2025Article
- Multi-omics reveals the inhibition of asexual reproduction in the jellyfish Aurelia coerulea polyp by Bacillus pacificus.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Genomic evidence for flies as carriers of zoonotic pathogens on dairy farms.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
- Microbial Community Dynamics in Natural Drosophila melanogaster Populations Across Seasons.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic responses of Mediterranean sponges upon encounter with symbiont microbial consortia.BMC genomics · 2024Article
- Melipona stingless bees and honey microbiota reveal the diversity, composition, and modes of symbionts transmission.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
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- Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity inEvolution letters · 2024Article
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- Extracellular symbiont colonizes insect during embryo development.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Ecology and evolution of the social microbiome.Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics · 2024Article
- Quorum sensing inhibits interference competition among bacterial symbionts within a host.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host strain specificity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Beneficial associations with bacteria are widespread across animals, spanning a range of symbiont localizations, transmission routes, and functions. While some of these associations have evolved into obligate relationships with permanent symbiont localization within the host, the majority require colonization of every host generation from the environment or via maternal provisions. Across the broad diversity of host species and tissue types that beneficial bacteria can colonize, there are some highly specialized strategies for establishment yet also some common patterns in the molecular basis of colonization. This review focuses on the mechanisms underlying the early stage of beneficial bacterium-invertebrate associations, from initial contact to the establishment of the symbionts in a specific location of the host's body. We first reflect on general selective pressures that can drive the transition from a free-living to a host-associated lifestyle in bacteria. We then cover bacterial molecular factors for colonization in symbioses from both model and nonmodel invertebrate systems where these have been studied, including terrestrial and aquatic host taxa. Finally, we discuss how interactions between multiple colonizing bacteria and priority effects can influence colonization. Taking the bacterial perspective, we emphasize the importance of developing new experimentally tractable systems to derive general insights into the ecological factors and molecular adaptations underlying the origin and establishment of beneficial symbioses in animals.
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