Ticks are among the most important vectors of pathogens affecting humans and other
animals worldwide. They do not only carry pathogens however, as a diverse group of …

Microorganisms that reside within or transmit through arthropod reproductive tissues have
profound impacts on host reproduction, health and evolution. In this Review, we discuss …

Ecological specialization to restricted diet niches is driven by obligate, and often maternally
inherited, symbionts in many arthropod lineages. These heritable symbionts typically form …

Background Inherited bacteria have come to be recognised as important components of
arthropod biology. In addition to mutualistic symbioses, a range of other inherited bacteria …

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of theoretical and empirical studies of sex
allocation, transforming how we understand the allocation of resources to male and female …

Many insects are ubiquitously associated with multiple endosymbionts, whose infection
patterns often exhibit spatial and temporal variations. How such endosymbiont variations are …

To quantify microbial composition and interactions, we identified prokaryotic communities in
the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and …

Terrestrial arthropods are commonly infected with maternally inherited bacterial symbionts
that cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI). In CI, the outcome of crosses between symbiont …

Maternally transmitted bacteria have been important players in the evolution of insects and
other arthropods, affecting their nutrition, defense, development, and reproduction …

Intracellular reproductive manipulators, such as Candidatus Cardinium and Wolbachia are
vertically transmitted to progeny but rarely show co-speciation with the host. In sap-feeding …