Published in Mol Ecol on October 01, 2002
Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 7.12
Problems with mitochondrial DNA as a marker in population, phylogeographic and phylogenetic studies: the effects of inherited symbionts. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 4.16
Evolutionary relationships of three new species of Enterobacteriaceae living as symbionts of aphids and other insects. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 3.35
Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 3.28
Costs and benefits of symbiont infection in aphids: variation among symbionts and across temperatures. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 2.78
Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 2.70
Sexual acquisition of beneficial symbionts in aphids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 2.11
Host-based divergence in populations of the pea aphid: insights from nuclear markers and the prevalence of facultative symbionts. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 2.10
Rickettsia symbiont in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum: novel cellular tropism, effect on host fitness, and interaction with the essential symbiont Buchnera. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.95
Symbiont-mediated protection. Proc Biol Sci (2008) 1.92
Population dynamics of defensive symbionts in aphids. Proc Biol Sci (2008) 1.74
Diversity of bacteria associated with natural aphid populations. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 1.74
Elucidation of the transmission patterns of an insect-borne bacterium. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 1.62
Horizontal transfer of bacterial symbionts: heritability and fitness effects in a novel aphid host. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.49
Bacterial symbionts in insects or the story of communities affecting communities. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 1.46
Coexistence of Wolbachia with Buchnera aphidicola and a secondary symbiont in the aphid Cinara cedri. J Bacteriol (2004) 1.45
A genomic perspective on nutrient provisioning by bacterial symbionts of insects. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.40
Facultative symbionts are associated with host plant specialization in pea aphid populations. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 1.39
Factors affecting population dynamics of maternally transmitted endosymbionts in Bemisia tabaci. PLoS One (2012) 1.37
Co-infection and localization of secondary symbionts in two whitefly species. BMC Microbiol (2010) 1.37
Characterization of a facultative endosymbiotic bacterium of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. Microb Ecol (2005) 1.31
Isolation, pure culture, and characterization of "Candidatus Arsenophonus arthropodicus," an intracellular secondary endosymbiont from the hippoboscid louse fly Pseudolynchia canariensis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.30
Genetic variation in the effect of a facultative symbiont on host-plant use by pea aphids. Oecologia (2007) 1.28
Symbiont modifies host life-history traits that affect gene flow. Proc Biol Sci (2006) 1.28
Facultative symbiont infections affect aphid reproduction. PLoS One (2011) 1.20
Evolution and diversity of facultative symbionts from the aphid subfamily Lachninae. Appl Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.19
Localization and visualization of a coxiella-type symbiont within the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.19
Rickettsia infection in natural leech populations. Microb Ecol (2005) 1.19
Frequency of secondary symbiont infection in an invasive psyllid relates to parasitism pressure on a geographic scale in California. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.15
Effects of bacterial secondary symbionts on host plant use in pea aphids. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 1.13
Detection and characterization of Wolbachia infections in natural populations of aphids: is the hidden diversity fully unraveled? PLoS One (2011) 1.12
Dynamics of genome evolution in facultative symbionts of aphids. Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.09
Comparative genomics of insect-symbiotic bacteria: influence of host environment on microbial genome composition. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 1.08
Symbiont-mediated protection against fungal pathogens in pea aphids: a role for pathogen specificity? Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.98
Interspecific symbiont transfection confers a novel ecological trait to the recipient insect. Biol Lett (2010) 0.97
Evidence for the role of endosymbionts in regional-scale habitat partitioning by hydrothermal vent symbioses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 0.96
Insect Sex Determination Manipulated by Their Endosymbionts: Incidences, Mechanisms and Implications. Insects (2012) 0.96
Genetic Diversity of the Invasive Gall Wasp Leptocybe invasa (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and of its Rickettsia Endosymbiont, and Associated Sex-Ratio Differences. PLoS One (2015) 0.94
Phenotypic effect of "Candidatus Rickettsiella viridis," a facultative symbiont of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), and its interaction with a coexisting symbiont. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.93
Male-killing Wolbachia do not protect Drosophila bifasciata against viral infection. BMC Microbiol (2012) 0.91
The diversity and fitness effects of infection with facultative endosymbionts in the grain aphid, Sitobion avenae. Oecologia (2013) 0.90
Insect endosymbionts: manipulators of insect herbivore trophic interactions? Protoplasma (2010) 0.90
Host ecology shapes geographical variation for resistance to bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster. J Anim Ecol (2008) 0.89
Proteomic investigation of aphid honeydew reveals an unexpected diversity of proteins. PLoS One (2013) 0.89
Heritable symbionts in a world of varying temperature. Heredity (Edinb) (2016) 0.87
Infection prevalence of Sodalis symbionts among stinkbugs. Zoological Lett (2015) 0.86
Worldwide populations of the aphid Aphis craccivora are infected with diverse facultative bacterial symbionts. Microb Ecol (2014) 0.86
Evidence for specificity in symbiont-conferred protection against parasitoids. Proc Biol Sci (2015) 0.86
Adaptive evolution of a generalist parasitoid: implications for the effectiveness of biological control agents. Evol Appl (2013) 0.85
Aphid reproductive investment in response to mortality risks. BMC Evol Biol (2010) 0.85
Factors limiting the spread of the protective symbiont Hamiltonella defensa in Aphis craccivora Aphids. Appl Environ Microbiol (2014) 0.84
Variations in the identity and complexity of endosymbiont combinations in whitefly hosts. Front Microbiol (2014) 0.83
Host Plant Determines the Population Size of an Obligate Symbiont (Buchnera aphidicola) in Aphids. Appl Environ Microbiol (2016) 0.83
Wolbachia in butterflies and moths: geographic structure in infection frequency. Front Zool (2015) 0.82
Symbionts modify interactions between insects and natural enemies in the field. J Anim Ecol (2016) 0.81
Differences in the structure of the gut bacteria communities in development stages of the Chinese white pine beetle (Dendroctonus armandi). Int J Mol Sci (2013) 0.81
Addicted? Reduced host resistance in populations with defensive symbionts. Proc Biol Sci (2016) 0.80
The impact of environmental heterogeneity and life stage on the hindgut microbiota of Holotrichia parallela larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). PLoS One (2013) 0.80
Comparison of fitness traits and their plasticity on multiple plants for Sitobion avenae infected and cured of a secondary endosymbiont. Sci Rep (2016) 0.80
Influence of host phylogeographic patterns and incomplete lineage sorting on within-species genetic variability in Wigglesworthia species, obligate symbionts of tsetse flies. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.79
Insect symbionts in food webs. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2016) 0.79
Community structure of gut fungi during different developmental stages of the Chinese white pine beetle (Dendroctonus armandi). Sci Rep (2015) 0.78
Reinventing the Wheel and Making It Round Again: Evolutionary Convergence in Buchnera-Serratia Symbiotic Consortia between the Distantly Related Lachninae Aphids Tuberolachnus salignus and Cinara cedri. Genome Biol Evol (2016) 0.76
Sea-land transitions in isopods: pattern of symbiont distribution in two species of intertidal isopods Ligia pallasii and Ligia occidentalis in the Eastern Pacific. Symbiosis (2010) 0.76
Diversity and localization of bacterial endosymbionts from whitefly species collected in Brazil. PLoS One (2014) 0.75
Male death resulting from hybridization between subspecies of the gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar. Heredity (Edinb) (2010) 0.75
Bacterial communities of the cotton aphid Aphis gossypii associated with Bt cotton in northern China. Sci Rep (2016) 0.75
Can They Make It on Their Own? Hosts, Microbes, and the Holobiont Niche. Front Microbiol (2016) 0.75
Orally Delivered Scorpion Antimicrobial Peptides Exhibit Activity against Pea Aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) and Its Bacterial Symbionts. Toxins (Basel) (2017) 0.75
Secondary bacterial symbiont community in aphids responds to plant diversity. Oecologia (2015) 0.75
Genotype specificity among hosts, pathogens, and beneficial microbes influences the strength of symbiont-mediated protection. Evolution (2017) 0.75
The Value of a Comparative Approach to Understand the Complex Interplay between Microbiota and Host Immunity. Front Immunol (2017) 0.75
Symbiont Diversity of Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus (Hemiptera: Aphididae) as Influenced by Host Plants. Microb Ecol (2016) 0.75
Strict host-symbiont cospeciation and reductive genome evolution in insect gut bacteria. PLoS Biol (2006) 3.62
Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont. Science (2004) 3.54
Evolutionary relationships of three new species of Enterobacteriaceae living as symbionts of aphids and other insects. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 3.35
Horizontal gene transfer from diverse bacteria to an insect genome enables a tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis. Cell (2013) 3.05
Genome fragment of Wolbachia endosymbiont transferred to X chromosome of host insect. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 2.83
Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.80
Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 2.70
Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: a stinkbug acquires a beneficial gut symbiont from the environment every generation. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 2.66
Defensive bacteriome symbiont with a drastically reduced genome. Curr Biol (2013) 2.34
Gut symbiotic bacteria of the genus Burkholderia in the broad-headed bugs Riptortus clavatus and Leptocorisa chinensis (Heteroptera: Alydidae). Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 2.23
Wolbachia infections are virulent and inhibit the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum in Anopheles gambiae. PLoS Pathog (2011) 2.18
Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.09
Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insect. Proc Biol Sci (2007) 1.96
Rickettsia symbiont in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum: novel cellular tropism, effect on host fitness, and interaction with the essential symbiont Buchnera. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.95
Symbiont-mediated insecticide resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.92
Diversity of Wolbachia endosymbionts in heteropteran bugs. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 1.90
An ancient but promiscuous host-symbiont association between Burkholderia gut symbionts and their heteropteran hosts. ISME J (2010) 1.89
Wolbachia genome integrated in an insect chromosome: evolution and fate of laterally transferred endosymbiont genes. Genome Res (2007) 1.83
Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs. BMC Biol (2009) 1.76
Symbiotic bacterium modifies aphid body color. Science (2010) 1.75
Primary gut symbiont and secondary, Sodalis-allied symbiont of the Scutellerid stinkbug Cantao ocellatus. Appl Environ Microbiol (2010) 1.66
The making of symbiont capsule in the plataspid stinkbug Megacopta punctatissima. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2005) 1.64
Prevailing triple infection with Wolbachia in Callosobruchus chinensis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Mol Ecol (2002) 1.64
Internal spatiotemporal population dynamics of infection with three Wolbachia strains in the adzuki bean beetle, Callosobruchus chinensis (Coleoptera: Bruchidae). Appl Environ Microbiol (2002) 1.58
Wing disc development during caste differentiation in the ant Pheidole megacephala (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Evol Dev (2004) 1.53
Specific developmental window for establishment of an insect-microbe gut symbiosis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 1.46
Infection density of Wolbachia endosymbiont affected by co-infection and host genotype. Biol Lett (2005) 1.42
Diversity and infection prevalence of endosymbionts in natural populations of the chestnut weevil: relevance of local climate and host plants. Mol Ecol (2010) 1.34
Population dynamics of male-killing and non-male-killing spiroplasmas in Drosophila melanogaster. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 1.33
Cellular mechanism for selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte-embryo interface. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.33
Novel clade of Rickettsia spp. from leeches. Appl Environ Microbiol (2002) 1.28
Symbiotic bacteria associated with stomach discs of human lice. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.26
Bacterial endosymbiont of the slender pigeon louse, Columbicola columbae, allied to endosymbionts of grain weevils and tsetse flies. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.26
Infection dynamics of coexisting beta- and gammaproteobacteria in the nested endosymbiotic system of mealybugs. Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 1.26
"Candidatus Curculioniphilus buchneri," a novel clade of bacterial endocellular symbionts from weevils of the genus Curculio. Appl Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.25
Selective elimination of aphid endosymbionts: effects of antibiotic dose and host genotype, and fitness consequences. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2007) 1.23
Self-sacrificing gall repair by aphid nymphs. Proc Biol Sci (2003) 1.22
Genetic structure of sibling butterfly species affected by Wolbachia infection sweep: evolutionary and biogeographical implications. Mol Ecol (2006) 1.20
Facultative symbiont infections affect aphid reproduction. PLoS One (2011) 1.20
Phylogenetic position and peculiar genetic traits of a midgut bacterial symbiont of the stinkbug Parastrachia japonensis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2010) 1.18
Unexpected mechanism of symbiont-induced reversal of insect sex: feminizing Wolbachia continuously acts on the butterfly Eurema hecabe during larval development. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.18
Asymmetrical interactions between Wolbachia and Spiroplasma endosymbionts coexisting in the same insect host. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.17
Reductive evolution of bacterial genome in insect gut environment. Genome Biol Evol (2011) 1.16
Symbiont acquisition alters behaviour of stinkbug nymphs. Biol Lett (2008) 1.15
"Candidatus Midichloriaceae" fam. nov. (Rickettsiales), an ecologically widespread clade of intracellular alphaproteobacteria. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 1.13
How many symbionts are provided by mothers, acquired by offspring, and needed for successful vertical transmission in an obligate insect-bacterium mutualism? Mol Ecol (2007) 1.13
Intestinal endocellular symbiotic bacterium of the macaque louse Pedicinus obtusus: Distinct endosymbiont origins in anthropoid primate lice and the old world monkey louse. Appl Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.12
Bacterial symbionts of the giant jewel stinkbug Eucorysses grandis (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae). Zoolog Sci (2011) 1.11
Complete Genome Sequence of Burkholderia sp. Strain RPE64, Bacterial Symbiont of the Bean Bug Riptortus pedestris. Genome Announc (2013) 1.11
High and low temperatures differently affect infection density and vertical transmission of male-killing Spiroplasma symbionts in Drosophila hosts. Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 1.08
Gene expression in gut symbiotic organ of stinkbug affected by extracellular bacterial symbiont. PLoS One (2013) 1.08
Major alteration of the expression site of endogenous cellulases in members of an apical termite lineage. Mol Ecol (2004) 1.05
Hidden from the host: Spiroplasma bacteria infecting Drosophila do not cause an immune response, but are suppressed by ectopic immune activation. Insect Mol Biol (2003) 1.05
Laccase2 is required for cuticular pigmentation in stinkbugs. Insect Biochem Mol Biol (2010) 1.04
Prevalence of a non-male-killing spiroplasma in natural populations of Drosophila hydei. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.02
Polyester synthesis genes associated with stress resistance are involved in an insect-bacterium symbiosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.01
Complete WO phage sequences reveal their dynamic evolutionary trajectories and putative functional elements required for integration into the Wolbachia genome. Appl Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.01
Biological role of Nardonella endosymbiont in its weevil host. PLoS One (2010) 1.01
Altruistic colony defense by menopausal female insects. Curr Biol (2010) 1.01
Novel clade of alphaproteobacterial endosymbionts associated with stinkbugs and other arthropods. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 1.01
Venomous protease of aphid soldier for colony defense. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 1.00
Polyphyly of gut symbionts in stinkbugs of the family Cydnidae. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 1.00
Screening of genes expressed in developing mandibles during soldier differentiation in the termite Hodotermopsis sjostedti. FEBS Lett (2005) 0.98
Winged presoldiers induced by a juvenile hormone analog in Zootermopsis nevadensis: implications for plasticity and evolution of caste differentiation in termites. J Morphol (2003) 0.98
Large gene family expansion and variable selective pressures for cathepsin B in aphids. Mol Biol Evol (2007) 0.97
Interspecific symbiont transfection confers a novel ecological trait to the recipient insect. Biol Lett (2010) 0.97
Isolation of actinomycetes from termites' guts. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem (2003) 0.97
Longicorn beetle that vectors pinewood nematode carries many Wolbachia genes on an autosome. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 0.96
Wolbachia infections in world populations of bean beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) infesting cultivated and wild legumes. Zoolog Sci (2011) 0.96
Evolution of symbiotic organs and endosymbionts in lygaeid stinkbugs. ISME J (2011) 0.95
Reductive genome evolution, host-symbiont co-speciation and uterine transmission of endosymbiotic bacteria in bat flies. ISME J (2011) 0.95
Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Korean woodroaches Cryptocercus spp. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2004) 0.93
Phenotypic effect of "Candidatus Rickettsiella viridis," a facultative symbiont of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum), and its interaction with a coexisting symbiont. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.93
Diversity of bacterial endosymbionts associated with Macrosteles leafhoppers vectoring phytopathogenic phytoplasmas. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.92
Diverse strategies for vertical symbiont transmission among subsocial stinkbugs. PLoS One (2013) 0.92
Diversification of endosymbiosis: replacements, co-speciation and promiscuity of bacteriocyte symbionts in weevils. ISME J (2013) 0.91
Phylogenetic analyses of fat body endosymbionts reveal differences in invasion times of blaberid wood-feeding cockroaches (Blaberidae: Panesthiinae) into the Japanese archipelago. Zoolog Sci (2005) 0.90
Identification of soldier caste-specific protein in the frontal gland of nasute termite Nasutitermes takasagoensis (Isoptera: Termitidae). Insect Biochem Mol Biol (2005) 0.89
Mandibular morphogenesis during soldier differentiation in the damp-wood termite Hodotermopsis sjoestedti (Isoptera: Termopsidae). Naturwissenschaften (2003) 0.89
Live imaging of symbiosis: spatiotemporal infection dynamics of a GFP-labelled Burkholderia symbiont in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris. Mol Ecol (2013) 0.89
Spiroplasma as a model insect endosymbiont. Environ Microbiol Rep (2011) 0.89
Isolation and characterization of aromatics-degrading microorganisms from the gut of the lower termite Coptotermes formosanus. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem (2003) 0.89