The insect's microbiota is well acknowledged as a “hidden” player influencing essential
insect traits. The gut microbiome of butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) has been shown to …

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

Background Inherited bacteria have come to be recognised as important components of
arthropod biology. In addition to mutualistic symbioses, a range of other inherited bacteria …

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

Bacteria that are vertically transmitted through female hosts and kill male hosts that inherit
them were first recorded in insects during the 1950s. Recent studies have shown these" …

To elucidate the co‐evolutionary relationships between phloem‐feeding insects and their
secondary, or facultative, bacterial symbionts, we explore the distributions of three such …

Most species of insect, and many other plants and animals, carry maternally heritable
microorganisms—viruses, bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes, and fungi that pass from a female …

From a laboratory strain of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, we discovered a previously
unknown facultative endosymbiotic bacterium. Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on …

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

Field-collected mosquitoes of the two main malaria vectors in Africa, Anopheles gambiae
sensu lato and Anopheles funestus, were screened for their midgut bacterial contents. The …