Aphids are frequently engaged in mutualistic associations with endosymbionts. Symbionts
are bacterial or fungal microorganisms that can be obligate or facultative to aphids …

Bacterial symbionts represent essential drivers of arthropod ecology and evolution,
influencing host traits such as nutrition, reproduction, immunity, and speciation. However …

Ecological specialization to restricted diet niches is driven by obligate, and often maternally
inherited, symbionts in many arthropod lineages. These heritable symbionts typically form …

Color variation within populations of the pea aphid influences relative susceptibility to
predators and parasites. We have discovered that infection with a facultative endosymbiont …

The importance of microbial facultative endosymbionts to insects is increasingly being
recognized, but our understanding of how the fitness effects of infection are distributed …

Endosymbiotic bacteria that live inside the cells of insects are typically only transmitted
maternally and can spread by increasing host fitness and/or modifying reproduction in …

Assessment of the microbial diversity residing in arthropod vectors of medical importance is
crucial for monitoring endemic infections, for surveillance of newly emerging zoonotic …

Insect Symbiosis summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic
organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge …

In the English edition of his landmark book Endosymbiosis of Animals with Plant
Microorganisms (1965), Professor Paul Buchner is probably the most prominent founder of …

Effects of vertebrate-associated microbiota on physiology and health are of significant
interest in current biological research. Most previous studies have focused on host …