Research over the past 30 years has led to a widespread acceptance that insects establish
widespread and diverse associations with microorganisms. More recently, microbiome …

Animals are distinguished by having guts—organs that must extract nutrients from food yet
also bar invasion by pathogens. Most guts are colonized by nonpathogenic microorganisms …

Animals live together with diverse bacteria that can impact their biology. In Drosophila
melanogaster, gut-associated bacterial communities are relatively simple in composition but …

Many animals depend on microbial symbionts to provide nutrition, defence or other services.
Holometabolous insects, as well as other animals that undergo metamorphosis, face unique …

The ability to feed on a wide range of diets has enabled insects to diversify and colonize
specialized niches. Carrion, for example, is highly susceptible to microbial decomposers, but …

The soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP) infect a wide range of plants worldwide and cause
economic damage to crops and ornamentals but can also colonize other plants as part of …

The relationship between animals and their gut flora is simultaneously one of the most
common and most complex symbioses on Earth. Despite its ubiquity, our understanding of …

The diversity and ecological variety of Holometabola foregrounds a wide array of dynamic
symbiotic relationships with gut-dwelling bacteria. A review of the literature highlights that …

Pathogenic soft rot Enterobacteriaceae (SRE) belonging to the genera Pectobacterium and
Dickeya cause diseases in potato and numerous other crops. Seed potatoes are the most …

Gut microbes and diet can both strongly affect the biology of multicellular animals, but it is
often difficult to disentangle microbiota–diet interactions due to the complex microbial …