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ArticlemSystems2025

Dynamic but constrained: repeated acquisitions of nutritional symbionts in bed bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicidae) from a narrow taxonomic pool.

Václav Hypša, Jana Martinů, Sazzad Mahmood, Shruti Gupta, Eva Nováková, Steffen Roth, Ondřej Balvín

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Article in mSystems, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. AISME communications · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Václav HypšaDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0001-5572-782X
Jana MartinůDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Sazzad MahmoodDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Shruti GuptaDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Eva NovákováDepartment of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0003-4090-0655
Steffen RothUniversity Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Ondřej BalvínDepartment of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic.

Funding

Grantová Agentura České Republiky 24-10943S
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bed bugs (Heteroptera: Cimicidae) harbor obligate bacterial symbionts that supplement their blood diet with missing nutrients, especially B vitamins. The primary symbiont, transovarially transmitted

Indexed as

BacteriaBedbugsNutrientsAnimalsEnterobacteriaceaeGenome, BacterialHost Microbial InteractionsHost SpecificityMetagenomicsPhylogenySerratiaSymbiosisWolbachiabed bugscoevolutiongenomicsmicrobiomesymbiosis

Identifiers

PMID41211985
PMCPMC12710357

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