The gut microbiota serves as a critical “organ” in the life cycle of animals, particularly in the
intricate interplay between herbivorous pests and plants. This review summarizes the pivotal …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are key pollinators that support global agriculture and are long-
established models for developmental and behavioural research. Recently, they have …

Microbes can be an important source of phenotypic plasticity in insects. Insect physiology,
behaviour, and ecology are influenced by individual variation in the microbial communities …

Nosema ceranae is an intracellular parasite invading the midgut of honeybees, which
causes serious nosemosis implicated in honeybee colony losses worldwide. The core gut …

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are critical agricultural pollinators as well as model organisms
for research on development, behavior, memory, and learning. The parasite Nosema …

The honey bee is a powerful model system to probe host–gut microbiota interactions, and an
important pollinator species for natural ecosystems and for agriculture. While bacterial …

Black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens (L.)(Diptera: Stratiomyidae), is a promising bio-
agent to transform organic wastes into valuable insect biomass, and the intestinal microbes …

The Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) is a sophisticated mechanism utilized by gram-
negative bacteria to deliver toxic effector proteins into target cells, influencing microbial …

Mechanistic understanding of interactions in many host-microbe systems, including the
honey bee microbiome, is limited by a lack of easy-to-use genome engineering approaches …

Because aphids are global agricultural pests and models for bacterial endosymbiosis, there
is a need for reliable methods to study and control their gene function. However, current …