ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Host hydrocarbons protect symbiont transmission from a radical host defense.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Yellow protein co-opted to sustain obligate symbiosis in leaf beetles.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Defensive symbionts of the European beewolf face competition from brood cell microbiota during vertical transmission.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
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- Pathobiont and symbiont contribute to microbiota homeostasis through Malpighian tubules-gut countercurrent flow in Bactrocera dorsalis.The ISME journal · 2024Article
- Protection of a defensive symbiont does not constrain the composition of the multifunctional hydrocarbon profile in digger wasps.Biology letters · 2023Article
- Resistance waxes for mutualists protected by wasp secretions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Symbioses with microbes play a pivotal role in the evolutionary success of insects, and can lead to intimate host-symbiont associations. However, how the host maintains a stable symbiosis with its beneficial partners while keeping antagonistic microbes in check remains incompletely understood. Here, we uncover a mechanism by which a host protects its symbiont from the host's own broad-range antimicrobial defense during transmission. Beewolves, a group of solitary digger wasps (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), provide their brood cells with symbiotic
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