Insect guts present distinctive environments for microbial colonization, and bacteria in the
gut potentially provide many beneficial services to their hosts. Insects display a wide range …

Insect symbioses lack the complexity and diversity of those associated with higher
eukaryotic hosts. Symbiotic microbiomes are beneficial to their insect hosts in many ways …

Here, we investigated 124 stinkbug species representing 20 families and 5 superfamilies for
their Burkholderia gut symbionts, of which 39 species representing 6 families of the …

Understanding how horizontally transmitted mutualisms are maintained is a major focus of
symbiosis research. 1, 2, 3, 4 Unlike vertical transmission, hosts that rely on horizontal …

Highlights•Some insects exhibit sophisticated behaviors for vertical symbiont
transmission.•A variety of symbiont-induced behavioral changes have emerged in recent …

Several arthropod taxa live exclusively on vertebrate blood. This food source lacks essential
metabolites required for the maintenance of metabolic homeostasis, and as such, these …

Symbiosis between organisms is an important driving force in evolution. Among the diverse
relationships described, extensive progress has been made in insect–bacteria symbiosis …

Despite extensive study, little is known about the origins of the mutualistic bacterial
endosymbionts that inhabit approximately 10% of the world's insects. In this study, we …

A number of insects establish symbiotic associations with beneficial microorganisms in
various manners. The bean bug Riptortus pedestris and allied stink bugs possess an …

The alydid stinkbug Riptortus pedestris is specifically associated with a beneficial
Burkholderia symbiont in the midgut crypts. Exceptional among insect-microbe mutualistic …