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

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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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Disruption of a single gene encoding tryptophanase makes Escherichia coli mutualistic in a stinkbug model owing to the accumulation of tryptophan and a reduction in toxic indole. This gene is typicall...

Genomic Revelations on a Bacterial Consortium by Johnna L. Roose — Do you ever look at a couple and wonder… ‘Why are they together? What does X see in Y. I just don’t get it. Is X in it only for t…

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Bacteria with an intracellular lifestyle need to feed from inside their host cells. This study shows an adaptation of certain symbiotic bacteria, allowing them to actively retrieve nutrients from the ...

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Tympanal organs have repeatedly evolved in diverse insects and were thought to be required for auditory perception (1).

imageimageThe symbionts of Donaciinae, despite having severely eroded genomes of around 0.5 Mbp, exhibit specific transcriptional responses that allow them to react to changes both within and across h...

Although bacterial cells typically contain a single chromosome, some species are naturally polyploid and carry multiple copies of their chromosome. Po…

by Tobias Engl — Beewolves, their larvae, and their Streptomyces symbionts not only use multiple, largely different classes of chemical compounds to protect themselves against detrimental microbial co...

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Many insects carry heritable bacterial symbionts, but the evolution of vertical (parent-to-offspring) transmission is poorly understood. Using the genus Arsenophonus, Siozios et al. show that microbes...

How does host-symbiont specificity emerge at the very beginning of symbiosis? This question is difficult to address because it is generally difficult to directly observe the onset of symbiosis. Howeve...