Published in Mol Ecol on November 19, 2007
Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs. BMC Biol (2009) 1.76
Mom knows best: the universality of maternal microbial transmission. PLoS Biol (2013) 1.73
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Modulation of malaria infection in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes exposed to natural midgut bacteria. PLoS One (2013) 0.89
Microbial community profiling to investigate transmission of bacteria between life stages of the wood-boring beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis. Microb Ecol (2009) 0.87
Efficient colonization of the bean bug Riptortus pedestris by an environmentally transmitted Burkholderia symbiont. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.86
Phylogenetic, metabolic, and taxonomic diversities shape mediterranean fruit fly microbiotas during ontogeny. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 0.86
Symbiont-mediated functions in insect hosts. Commun Integr Biol (2013) 0.80
Female-specific specialization of a posterior end region of the midgut symbiotic organ in Plautia splendens and allied stinkbugs. Appl Environ Microbiol (2015) 0.78
Ingested Salmonella enterica, Cronobacter sakazakii, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Listeria monocytogenes: transmission dynamics from adult house flies to their eggs and first filial (F1) generation adults. BMC Microbiol (2015) 0.78
Gammaproteobacteria as essential primary symbionts in the striped shield bug, Graphosoma Lineatum (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae). Sci Rep (2016) 0.77
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Pika Gut May Select for Rare but Diverse Environmental Bacteria. Front Microbiol (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
Diversity and geographic distribution of secondary endosymbiotic bacteria in natural populations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Mol Ecol (2002) 3.10
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
Leeches and their microbiota: naturally simple symbiosis models. Trends Microbiol (2006) 1.51
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
Interaction between innate immune cells and a bacterial type III secretion system in mutualistic and pathogenic associations. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.30
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
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
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
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
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
Wolbachia infections in world populations of bean beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae) infesting cultivated and wild legumes. Zoolog Sci (2011) 0.96
Longicorn beetle that vectors pinewood nematode carries many Wolbachia genes on an autosome. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 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
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
Spiroplasma as a model insect endosymbiont. Environ Microbiol Rep (2011) 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
Isolation and characterization of aromatics-degrading microorganisms from the gut of the lower termite Coptotermes formosanus. Biosci Biotechnol Biochem (2003) 0.89
Fungal farming in a non-social beetle. PLoS One (2012) 0.88
Bacterial cell wall synthesis gene uppP is required for Burkholderia colonization of the Stinkbug Gut. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.88
Ultra-high-sensitivity stable-isotope probing of rRNA by high-throughput sequencing of isopycnic centrifugation gradients. Environ Microbiol Rep (2015) 0.87
Specific midgut region controlling the symbiont population in an insect-microbe gut symbiotic association. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.87
Endosymbiotic bacteria in the esophageal organ of glossiphoniid leeches. Appl Environ Microbiol (2002) 0.86
Redox alters yellow dragonflies into red. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 0.85
Spiroplasma infection causes either early or late male killing in Drosophila, depending on maternal host age. Naturwissenschaften (2006) 0.85
Tissue-specific infection dynamics of male-killing and nonmale-killing spiroplasmas in Drosophila melanogaster. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2006) 0.85
A fine-scale phylogenetic analysis of free-living Burkholderia species in sugarcane field soil. Microbes Environ (2014) 0.84