Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years

Y Hu, CL D'Amelio, B Béchade… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sustaining beneficial gut symbioses presents a major challenge for animals, including
holometabolous insects. Social insects may meet such challenges through partner fidelity …

Identifying the Role of Elevation, Geography, and Species Identity in Structuring Turtle Ant (Cephalotes Latreille, 1802) Bacterial Communities

LC Graber, MO Ramalho, S Powell, CS Moreau - Microbial Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Bacterial communities in animals are often necessary for hosts to survive, particularly for
hosts with nutrient-limited diets. The composition, abundance, and richness of these …

Microbial symbionts are shared between ants and their associated beetles

C Valdivia, JA Newton, C von Beeren… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The transmission of microbial symbionts across animal species could strongly affect their
biology and evolution, but our understanding of transmission patterns and dynamics is …

Metagenomic analysis of the honey bee queen microbiome reveals low bacterial diversity and Caudoviricetes phages

L Caesar, DW Rice, A McAfee, R Underwood… - Msystems, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
In eusocial insects, the health of the queens—the colony founders and sole reproductive
females—is a primary determinant for colony success. Queen failure in the honey bee Apis …

Turtle ants harbor metabolically versatile microbiomes with conserved functions across development and phylogeny

B Béchade, Y Hu, JG Sanders… - FEMS microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Gut bacterial symbionts can support animal nutrition by facilitating digestion and providing
valuable metabolites. However, changes in symbiotic roles between immature and adult …

In their sister's footsteps: Taxonomic divergence obscures substantial functional overlap among the metabolically diverse symbiotic gut communities of adult and larval …

B Béchade, Y Hu, JG Sanders, CS Cabuslay, P Łukasik… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Gut bacterial symbionts can support animal nutrition by facilitating digestion and providing
valuable metabolites. While the composition of gut symbiont communities shifts with host …

Diet and phylogeny shape the composition, diversity, and structure of the ant-gut bacterial community

D Chen, X Liang, C Du, Z Chen - 2023 - researchsquare.com
The gut bacterial community provides various benefits and maintains a long-term symbiotic
relationship with its host. Thus, uncovering its diversity and structure is fundamental for …

[LIVRE][B] Exploring the Metabolic and Digestive Functions of Bacterial Gut Symbionts In Cephalotes Turtle Ants

B Bechade - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Gut bacterial symbionts can support animal nutrition by facilitating digestion and providing
valuable metabolites. Such associations have been extensively studied among termites and …