Signatures of host/symbiont genome coevolution in insect nutritional endosymbioses

ACC Wilson, RP Duncan - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The role of symbiosis in bacterial symbiont genome evolution is well understood, yet the
ways that symbiosis shapes host genomes or more particularly, host/symbiont genome …

Aphid amino acid transporter regulates glutamine supply to intracellular bacterial symbionts

DRG Price, H Feng, JD Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Endosymbiotic associations have played a major role in evolution. However, the molecular
basis for the biochemical interdependence of these associations remains poorly understood …

Symbiont replacements reset the co-evolutionary relationship between insects and their heritable bacteria

M Mao, GM Bennett - The ISME journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Auchenorrhynchan insects (Hemiptera) generally depend on two bacterial symbionts for
nutrition. These bacteria experience extreme genome reduction and loss of essential cell …

Dynamic recruitment of amino acid transporters to the insect/symbiont interface

RP Duncan, F Husnik, JT Van Leuven… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiosis is well known to influence bacterial symbiont genome evolution and has recently
been shown to shape eukaryotic host genomes. Intriguing patterns of host genome …

Tyrosine pathway regulation is host-mediated in the pea aphid symbiosis during late embryonic and early larval development

A Rabatel, G Febvay, K Gaget, G Duport… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Nutritional symbioses play a central role in insects' adaptation to specialized
diets and in their evolutionary success. The obligatory symbiosis between the pea aphid …

Gene family expansions in aphids maintained by endosymbiotic and nonsymbiotic traits

RP Duncan, H Feng, DM Nguyen… - Genome biology and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Facilitating the evolution of new gene functions, gene duplication is a major mechanism
driving evolutionary innovation. Gene family expansions relevant to host/symbiont …

Genome-Wide Characterization and Expression Profiling of Sugar Transporter Family in the Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)

Z Yang, J **a, H Pan, C Gong, W **e, Z Guo… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Sugar transporters (STs) play pivotal roles in the growth, development, and stress responses
of phloem-sucking insects, such as the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci. In this study, 137 sugar …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of amino acid transporters in the whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)

J **a, Z Yang, C Gong, W **e, H Pan… - … Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) is a cosmopolitan and devastating pest of agricultural crops
and ornamentals. B. tabaci causes extensive damage by feeding on phloem and by …

Amino acid transporters implicated in endocytosis of Buchnera during symbiont transmission in the pea aphid

H Lu, C Chang, ACC Wilson - Evodevo, 2016 - Springer
Background Many insects host their obligate, maternally transmitted symbiotic bacteria in
specialized cells called bacteriocytes. One of the best-studied insect nutritional …

Functional Analysis of Amino Acid Transporter Genes ACYPI000536 and ACYPI004320 in Acyrthosiphon pisum

L Yao, S Wang, R Ma, J Wei, L Song, L Liu - Insects, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) serve as a model insect for ecological
research and have recently emerged as a significant pest of alfalfa. Amino acid uptake and …