Toward an integrated understanding of the lepidoptera microbiome

Y Shao, CJ Mason, GW Felton - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Research over the past 30 years has led to a widespread acceptance that insects establish
widespread and diverse associations with microorganisms. More recently, microbiome …

Chemical, physiological and molecular responses of host plants to lepidopteran egg-laying

CM Bertea, LP Casacci, S Bonelli, A Zampollo… - Frontiers in plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Plant-lepidopteran interactions involve complex processes encompassing molecules and
regulators to counteract defense responses they develop against each other. Lepidoptera …

The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages for West Palearctic butterflies

L Dapporto, M Menchetti, V Dincă, G Talavera… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The interplay between geographic barriers and climatic oscillations over the past 2.6 million
years structured genetic variation at the continental scale. The genetic legacy of the …

The cultivable gut bacteria Enterococcus mundtii promotes early‐instar larval growth of Conogethes punctiferalis via enhancing digestive enzyme activity

J Li, B Ni, Y Wu, Y Yang, D Mu, KN Wu… - Pest Management …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Gut bacteria are crucial in influencing insect development and even
phenotypic plasticity. The yellow peach moth Conogethes punctiferalis, as a significant borer …

The Pleistocene species pump past its prime: evidence from European butterfly sister species

S Ebdon, DR Laetsch, L Dapporto… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Pleistocene glacial cycles had a profound impact on the ranges and genetic make‐up of
organisms. While it is clear that the contact zones that have been described for many sister …

Evaluation of cellulose degrading bacteria isolated from the gut-system of cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera and their potential values in biomass conversion

MA Dar, AF Shaikh, KD Pawar, R Xie, J Sun… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background Cotton bollworm, Helicoverpa armigera is a widely distributed, devastating pest
of over 200 crop plants that mainly consist of some cellulosic materials. Despite its economic …

One's trash is someone else's treasure: sequence read archives from Lepidoptera genomes provide material for genome reconstruction of their endosymbionts

VG Twort, D Blande, A Duplouy - BMC microbiology, 2022 - Springer
Background Maternally inherited bacterial symbionts are extremely widespread in insects.
They owe their success to their ability to promote their own transmission through various …

Host plant-dependent effects of microbes and phytochemistry on the insect immune response

SA Yoon, JG Harrison, CS Philbin, CD Dodson… - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
Herbivorous insects can defend themselves against pathogens via an immune response,
which is influenced by the nutritional quality and phytochemistry of the host plant. However …

Diversity of Wolbachia infection and its influence on mitochondrial DNA variation in the diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella

X Zhu, T Liu, A He, L Zhang, J Li, T Li, X Miao… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plutella xylostella is a pest that severely damages cruciferous vegetables worldwide and
has been shown to be infected with the maternally inherited bacteria Wolbachia, with the …

Temporal and spatial microbiome dynamics across natural populations of the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola

MM Busck, MB Lund, TL Bird… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Host–symbiont interactions may form obligatory or facultative associations that are context
dependent. Long-term studies on microbiome composition from wild populations should …