Gut bacteria are prevalent throughout the Metazoa and form complex microbial communities
associated with food breakdown, nutrient provision and disease prevention. How hosts …

When lineages of hosts and microbial symbionts engage in intimate interactions over
evolutionary timescales, they can diversify in parallel (ie, co‐diversify), producing …

The higher classification of termites requires substantial revision as the Neoisoptera, the
most diverse termite lineage, comprise many paraphyletic and polyphyletic higher taxa …

The symbiosis between termites and their hindgut protists is mutually obligate and vertically
inherited. It was established by the late Jurassic in the cockroach ancestors of termites as …

Mutualistic coevolution can be mediated by vertical transmission of symbionts between host
generations. Termites host complex gut bacterial communities with evolutionary histories …

There has long been a fundamental divide in the study of cooperation: researchers focus
either on cooperation within species, including but not limited to sociality, or else on …

Phylosymbiosis is an association between host-associated microbiome composition and
host phylogeny. This pattern can arise via evolution of host traits, habitat preferences, diets …

Termites digest wood using Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes (CAZymes) produced by gut
bacteria with whom they have cospeciated at geological timescales. Whether CAZymes …

The evolution of animals and their gut symbionts is a complex phenomenon, obscured by
lability and diversity. In social organisms, transmission of symbionts among relatives may …

The insect gut is a complicated ecosystem that inhabits a large number of symbiotic bacteria.
As an important organ of the host insect, the symbiotic bacteria of the insect gut play very …