Intracellular microorganisms are widespread and housed within specialized host cells called bacteriocytes in many invertebrates. Although increasin...

Abstract. The Rickettsiales are an alphaproteobacterial lineage engaging in ancient associations with a variety of eukaryotic hosts and with a wide spectru

Abstract. Obligate endosymbionts of insects undergo extreme genome evolution, marked by accelerated molecular evolution, severe base-pair compositional bia

SyeA was present in the Buchnera ancestor, is secreted into the host cytoplasm, is homologous to secreted effectors of bacterial pathogens and is essential for Buchnera transmission.

Abstract. With over a million described species, insects represent the most successful group of animals on Earth. One of the drivers of insect diversity is

Bacterial outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) and the cargo they carry are increasingly recognized as a means of communication between microbial symbion...

Browser-based prophage prediction using PhiSpy, Pyodide, and WebAssembly

The gut microbiome of eusocial corbiculate bees, which include honeybees, bumblebees, and stingless bees, consists of anciently associated, host-specific bacteria that play crucial role in nutrition, ...

Anaerobic single-celled eukaryotes illustrate the remarkable diversity of adaptations to life without oxygen, including multiple mitochondrial reductions and various symbiotic interactions with prokar...

The evolutionary mechanisms leading to symbiont replacement in insects are not well understood. Zhou et al. show that genome degradation results in nested symbiosis and endosymbiont replacement in cic...

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Among host-dependent bacteria that have evolved by extreme reductive genome evolution, long-term bacterial endosymbionts of insects have the smalle...