Hotter days, stronger immunity? Exploring the impact of rising temperatures on insect gut health and microbial relationships

CJ Mason, I Shikano - Current opinion in insect science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Host immune responses are linked to stress responses.•Microorganisms have
adaptive strategies to tolerate temperature fluctuations.•Elevated temperature may disrupt …

Mobile Resistance Elements: Symbionts That Modify Insect Host Resistance

Y Zhang, T Cai, H Wan - Journal of Agricultural and Food …, 2025 - ACS Publications
Mounting evidence indicates that symbionts play a beneficial role through secondary
metabolic compounds and various chemical processes in host adaptation to adversity …

Impact of Larval Food Source on the Stability of the Bactrocera dorsalis Microbiome

V Kempraj, J Auth, DH Cha, CJ Mason - Microbial Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Bacterial symbionts are crucial to the biology of Bactrocera dorsalis. With larval diet (fruit
host) being a key factor that determines microbiome composition and with B. dorsalis using …

A perspective on insect–microbe holobionts facing thermal fluctuations in a climate‐change context

C Iltis, K Tougeron, T Hance… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature influences the ecology and evolution of insects and their symbionts by
impacting each partner independently and their interactions, considering the holobiont as a …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring Gut Microbiota in Red Palm Weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus): Effects on Pest Management, Pesticide Resistance, and Thermal Stress …

OA Elkraly, TA Elrahman, M Awad… - Microbiology …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus, poses a significant threat to date
palms globally, heavily relying on symbiotic microbes for various physiological and …

Diversity analyses of bacterial symbionts in four Sclerodermus (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) parasitic wasps, the dominant biological control agents of wood-boring …

K Kang, L Wang, J Gong, Y Tang, K Wei - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Objective Sclerodermus wasps are important biocontrol agents of a class of wood borers.
Bacterial symbionts influence the ecology and biology of their hosts in a variety of ways …

Metagenomic Survey of the Highly Polyphagous Anastrepha ludens Develo** in Ancestral and Exotic Hosts Reveals the Lack of a Stable Microbiota in Larvae and …

M Aluja, JA Zamora-Briseño, V Pérez-Brocal… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
We studied the microbiota of a highly polyphagous insect, Anastrepha ludens (Diptera:
Tephritidae), develo** in six of its hosts, including two ancestral (Casimiroa edulis and C …

[HTML][HTML] Host–parasitoid phenology, distribution, and biological control under climate change

LC Ramos Aguila, X Li, KS Akutse, BS Bamisile… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change raises a serious threat to global entomofauna—the foundation of many
ecosystems—by threatening species preservation and the ecosystem services they provide …

Microbiota and pathogens in an invasive bee: Megachile sculpturalis from native and invaded regions

T Tuerlings, A Hettiarachchi, M Joossens… - Insect molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The present study aimed to characterise the bacterial, fungal and parasite gut community of
the invasive bee Megachile sculpturalis sampled from native (Japan) and invaded (USA and …

Probiotic based-diet effect on the immune response and induced stress in irradiated mass reared Ceratitis capitata males (Diptera: Tephritidae) destined for the …

M Msaad Guerfali, K Charaabi, H Hamden, W Djobbi… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Ceratitis capitata (medfly) is one of the most devastating crop pests worldwide. The Sterile
Insect Technique (SIT) is a control method that is based on the mass rearing of males, their …