Toward an integrated understanding of the lepidoptera microbiome

Y Shao, CJ Mason, GW Felton - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Research over the past 30 years has led to a widespread acceptance that insects establish
widespread and diverse associations with microorganisms. More recently, microbiome …

Complex relationships at the intersection of insect gut microbiomes and plant defenses

CJ Mason - Journal of chemical ecology, 2020 - Springer
Insect herbivores have ubiquitous associations with microorganisms that have major effects
on how host insects may interact in their environment. Recently, increased attention has …

Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome

TJ Hammer, DH Janzen, W Hallwachs… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Many animals are inhabited by microbial symbionts that influence their hosts' development,
physiology, ecological interactions, and evolutionary diversification. However, firm evidence …

Diet influences proliferation and stability of gut bacterial populations in herbivorous lepidopteran larvae

CJ Mason, A St. Clair, M Peiffer, E Gomez, AG Jones… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Animals have ubiquitous associations with microorganisms, but microbial community
composition and population dynamics can vary depending upon many environmental …

Gut bacteria in the holometabola: a review of obligate and facultative symbionts

RA Kucuk - Journal of Insect Science, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The diversity and ecological variety of Holometabola foregrounds a wide array of dynamic
symbiotic relationships with gut-dwelling bacteria. A review of the literature highlights that …

Partner fidelity and environmental filtering preserve stage‐specific turtle ant gut symbioses for over 40 million years

Y Hu, CL D'Amelio, B Béchade… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sustaining beneficial gut symbioses presents a major challenge for animals, including
holometabolous insects. Social insects may meet such challenges through partner fidelity …

Defining gut mycobiota for wild animals: a need for caution in assigning authentic resident fungal taxa

A Lavrinienko, T Scholier, ST Bates, AN Miller… - Animal microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Animal gut mycobiota, the community of fungi that reside within the gastrointestinal tract,
make an important contribution to host health. Accordingly, there is an emerging interest to …

The role of plant–pollinator interactions in structuring nectar microbial communities

C de Vega, S Álvarez‐Pérez, RG Albaladejo… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floral nectar harbours a diverse microbiome of yeasts and bacteria that depend
predominantly on animal visitors for their dispersal. Since pollinators visit specific sets of …

Seasonal shifts in bacterial and fungal microbiomes of leaves and associated leaf-mining larvae reveal persistence of core taxa regardless of diet

H Šigutová, M Šigut, P Pyszko, M Kostovčík… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microorganisms are key mediators of interactions between insect herbivores and their host
plants. Despite a substantial interest in studying various aspects of these interactions …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae – Insects Association: Impacts, Biogeography, and Extent

N Meriggi, M Di Paola, D Cavalieri… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Over the last few years, an increasing number of studies have reported the existence of an
association between the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and insects. The …