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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Phenotypic divergence is driven by mobile genetic elements in a heritable insect symbiont.

Balig Panossian, Matthew R Kolp, Taoping Wu, Keertana Tallapragada, Vilas Patel, Elliott B Goldstein, Kerry M Oliver, Lee M Henry, Benjamin J Parker

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Authors and funding

9 authors.

Balig PanossianSchool of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1654-7740
Matthew R KolpDepartment of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.ORCID 0000-0001-5025-8497
Taoping WuSchool of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
Keertana TallapragadaDepartment of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599.
Vilas PatelDepartment of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.ORCID 0000-0002-8370-1480
Elliott B GoldsteinDepartment of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.
Kerry M OliverDepartment of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
Lee M HenrySchool of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom.
Benjamin J ParkerDepartment of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996.ORCID 0000-0002-0679-4732

Funding

Understanding host-microbiome coevolution and genetic variation in immunity using an insect model systemR35GM154800 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Benjamin James Parker · 2024 to 2026
$1.1M
UK BBSRC BB/W001632/1US NIH R35GM154800US NSF DBI2109440US NSF IOS2152954
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heritable microbes profoundly influence insect biology, yet the traits they confer often evolve rapidly and differ among closely related symbiont strains. Despite their importance, we lack a clear understanding of how novel traits arise in symbionts and how this diversity influences host ecology in nature. The aphid facultative symbiont

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AphidsEnterobacteriaceaeInterspersed Repetitive SequencesSymbiosisAnimalsGene Transfer, HorizontalPhenotypePhylogenyPlasmidshorizontal gene transfermobile genetic elementspathogenic fungisymbiosis

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PMID42766741
PMCPMC13624595

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