All insects are colonized by microorganisms on the insect exoskeleton, in the gut and
hemocoel, and within insect cells. The insect microbiota is generally different from …

Nutritional symbionts play a major role in the ecology and evolution of insects. The recent
accumulation of knowledge on the identity, function, genomics, and phylogenetic …

The sterile womb paradigm is an enduring premise in biology that human infants are born
sterile. Recent studies suggest that infants incorporate an initial microbiome before birth and …

Covering: up to 2018 Insects live in a world full of toxic compounds such as plant toxins and
manmade pesticides. To overcome the effects of these toxins, herbivorous insects have …

The broad-headed bug Riptortus clavatus (Heteroptera: Alydidae) possesses a number of
crypts at a posterior midgut region, which house a dense population of a bacterial symbiont …

Host-symbiont cospeciation and reductive genome evolution have been identified in
obligate endocellular insect symbionts, but no such example has been identified from …

Insect Symbiosis summarizes the current knowledge of the relationship between symbiotic
organisms and their insect hosts and provides an unparalleled analysis of cutting-edge …

Plants and insects have been co-existing for more than 400 million years, leading to intimate
and complex relationships. Throughout their own evolutionary history, plants and insects …

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 …

Symbiosis has significantly contributed to organismal adaptation and diversification. For
establishment and maintenance of such host–symbiont associations, host organisms must …