Plants and insects have been co-existing for more than 400 million years, leading to intimate
and complex relationships. Throughout their own evolutionary history, plants and insects …

1. Many insects host secondary bacterial symbionts that are known to have wide‐ranging
effects on their hosts, from host‐plant use to resistance against natural enemies. This has …

Symbiotic microbes have become increasingly recognized to mediate interactions between
natural enemies and their hosts. The ecologies of these symbioses, however, are poorly …

Ecological specialization to restricted diet niches is driven by obligate, and often maternally
inherited, symbionts in many arthropod lineages. These heritable symbionts typically form …

Chloroplast sequence contamination in 16S ribosomal RNA gene (16S) analyses can be
particularly problematic when sampling microbial communities in plants and folivorous …

The recent development of high‐throughput NGS technologies,(ie, next‐generation
sequencing) has highlighted the complexity of tick microbial communities—which include …

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

Intraspecific variation in dietary breadth can influence important ecological and evolutionary
processes, yet the mechanisms generating this variation are usually unknown. Maternally …

The microbiome can significantly impact host phenotypes and serve as an additional source
of heritable genetic variation. While patterns across eukaryotes are consistent with a role for …

Associations between microbes and animals are ubiquitous and hosts may benefit from
harbouring microbial communities through improved resource exploitation or resistance to …