Insects share an intimate relationship with their gut microflora and this symbiotic association
has developed into an essential evolutionary outcome intended for their survival through …

Microorganisms that reside within or transmit through arthropod reproductive tissues have
profound impacts on host reproduction, health and evolution. In this Review, we discuss …

Insects have an amazing variety of colors and patterns. It should be noted that pigments
and/or genes involved in body color formation are markedly different between insects and …

Background Most metazoans are involved in durable relationships with microbes which can
take several forms, from mutualism to parasitism. The advances of NGS technologies and …

Settled on the foundations laid by zoologists and embryologists more than a century ago, the
study of symbiosis between prokaryotes and eukaryotes is an expanding field. In this review …

Heritable symbionts are common in terrestrial arthropods and often provide beneficial
services to hosts. Unlike obligate, nutritional symbionts that largely persist under strict host …

It is common among intracellular bacterial pathogens to use eukaryotic-like proteins that
mimic and manipulate host cellular processes to promote colonization and intracellular …

Wolbachia is a widespread, vertically transmitted bacterial endosymbiont known for
manipulating arthropod reproduction. Its most common form of reproductive manipulation is …

Bacteria of the order Legionellales, such as Legionella pneumophila, the agent of
Legionnaires' disease, and Coxiella burnetii, the agent of Q fever, are widely recognized as …

Aphids are major crop pests in southeastern regions of Australia. Some aphid species
harbor heritable facultative endosymbionts that may induce beneficial or detrimental impacts …