Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites
and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play …

Host-associated microbial communities have profound impacts on animal physiological
function, especially nutrition and metabolism. The hypothesis of 'symmorphosis', which …

How microbe–microbe interactions dictate microbial complexity in the mosquito gut is
unclear. Previously we found that, Serratia, a gut symbiont that alters vector competence and …

Nutritional symbionts influence host reproduction, but the underlying molecular mechanisms
are largely unclear. We previously found that the bacteriocyte symbiont Hamiltonella impacts …

It is becoming increasingly clear that microbial symbionts influence key aspects of their
host's fitness, and vice versa. This may fundamentally change our thinking about how …

Clarifying the mechanisms underlying microbial community assembly from regional
microbial pools is a central issue of microbial ecology, but remains largely unexplored. Here …

The relative importance of host control, environmental effects and stochasticity in the
assemblage of host‐associated microbiomes is being debated. We analysed the …

Gut microbiota can have diverse impacts on hosts, the nature of which often depend on the
circumstances. For insect gut microbes, the quality and nature of host diets can be a …

Recent comparative studies have found evidence consistent with the action of natural
selection on gene regulation across primate species. Other recent work has shown that the …

The microbiota of invasive animal species may be pivotal to their adaptation and spread, yet
the processes driving the assembly and potential sources of host-microbiota remain poorly …