Insects share an intimate relationship with their gut microflora and this symbiotic association
has developed into an essential evolutionary outcome intended for their survival through …

Nutritional symbionts play a major role in the ecology and evolution of insects. The recent
accumulation of knowledge on the identity, function, genomics, and phylogenetic …

The advent of relatively inexpensive tools for characterizing microbial communities has led
to an explosion of research exploring the diversity, ecology, and evolution of microbe-host …

Drosophila melanogaster is emerging as an important model of non-pathogenic host–
microbe interactions. The genetic and experimental tractability of Drosophila has led to …

Induced plant defenses in response to herbivore attack are modulated by cross-talk between
jasmonic acid (JA)-and salicylic acid (SA)-signaling pathways. Oral secretions from some …

Insect heritable symbionts have proven to be ubiquitous, based on molecular screening of
various insect lineages. Recently, molecular and experimental approaches have yielded an …

1. Bacterial symbionts play a prominent role in insect nutritional ecology by aiding in
digestion of food or providing nutrients that are limited or lacking in the diet. Thereby …

Summary 1 Many insects derive nutritional advantage from persistent associations with
microorganisms that variously synthesize essential nutrients or digest and detoxify ingested …

Plants can respond to insect egg deposition and thus resist attack by herbivorous insects
from the beginning of the attack, egg deposition. We review ecological effects of plant …

Across animals and plants, numerous metabolic and defensive adaptations are a direct
consequence of symbiotic associations with beneficial microbes. Explaining how these …