Virtually all plants and animals, including humans, are home to symbiotic microorganisms.
Symbiotic interactions can be neutral, harmful or have beneficial effects on the host …

Research over the past 30 years has led to a widespread acceptance that insects establish
widespread and diverse associations with microorganisms. More recently, microbiome …

Wolbachia are maternally inherited intracellular bacterial symbionts that are estimated to
infect more than 60% of all insect species. While Wolbachia is commonly found in many …

Insect heritable symbionts have proven to be ubiquitous, based on molecular screening of
various insect lineages. Recently, molecular and experimental approaches have yielded an …

Intracellular endosymbiotic bacteria are found in many terrestrial arthropods and have a
profound influence on host biology. A basic question about these symbionts is why they …

Many insects are dependent on bacterial symbionts that provide essential nutrients (ex.
aphid–Buchnera and tsetse–Wiglesworthia associations), wherein the symbionts are …

Summary 1 Many insects derive nutritional advantage from persistent associations with
microorganisms that variously synthesize essential nutrients or digest and detoxify ingested …

It is often taken for granted that all animals host and depend upon a microbiome, yet this has
only been shown for a small proportion of species. We propose that animals span a …

Multicellular animals match costly activities, such as growth and reproduction, to the
environment through nutrient-sensing pathways. The insulin/IGF signaling (IIS) pathway …

Cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) is the most common symbiont-induced reproductive
manipulation. Specifically, symbiont-induced sperm modifications cause catastrophic mitotic …