Insect bacteriocytes: adaptation, development, and evolution

JB Luan - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Bacteriocytes are host cells specialized to harbor symbionts in certain insect taxa. The
adaptation, development, and evolution of bacteriocytes underlie insect symbiosis …

How it all begins: bacterial factors mediating the colonization of invertebrate hosts by beneficial symbionts

R Ganesan, JC Wierz, M Kaltenpoth… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Beneficial associations with bacteria are widespread across animals, spanning a range of
symbiont localizations, transmission routes, and functions. While some of these associations …

Cuticle supplementation and nitrogen recycling by a dual bacterial symbiosis in a family of xylophagous beetles

JST Kiefer, E Bauer, G Okude, T Fukatsu… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Many insects engage in stable nutritional symbioses with bacteria that supplement limiting
essential nutrients to their host. While several plant sap-feeding Hemipteran lineages are …

Elucidation of host and symbiont contributions to peptidoglycan metabolism based on comparative genomics of eight aphid subfamilies and their Buchnera

TE Smith, Y Li, J Perreau, NA Moran - PLoS Genetics, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) are insects containing genes of bacterial origin with
putative functions in peptidoglycan (PGN) metabolism. Of these, rlpA1-5, amiD, and ldcA are …

Evolutionary history of tyrosine-supplementing endosymbionts in pollen-feeding beetles

JC Wierz, ML Gimmel, S Huthmacher, T Engl… - The ISME …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Many insects feeding on nutritionally challenging diets like plant sap, leaves, or wood
engage in ancient associations with bacterial symbionts that supplement limiting nutrients or …

A Horizontally Transferred Plant Fatty Acid Desaturase Gene Steers Whitefly Reproduction

C Gong, Z Guo, Y Hu, Z Yang, J Xia, X Yang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are essential nutrients for all living organisms. PUFA
synthesis is mediated by Δ12 desaturases in plants and microorganisms, whereas animals …

Highly reduced complementary genomes of dual bacterial symbionts in the mulberry psyllid Anomoneura mori

Y Yasuda, H Inoue, Y Hirose… - Microbes and …, 2024 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The genomes of obligately host-restricted bacteria suffer from accumulating mildly
deleterious mutations, resulting in marked size reductions. Psyllids (Hemiptera) are phloem …

Cuticle supplementation and nitrogen recycling by a dual bacterial symbiosis in a family of xylophagous beetles (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae)

JST Kiefer, E Bauer, G Okude, T Fukatsu, M Kaltenpoth… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Many insects engage in stable nutritional symbioses with bacteria that supplement limiting
essential nutrients to their host. While several plant sap-feeding Hemipteran lineages are …