Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Fungi
Extracellular

odour emissions that increased the attraction of flies; led to decreased oviposition

2017

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

the microbiome can influence chemical communication by altering the production of pheromones

2016

Bacteria

a widely used bacterial entomopathogen producing insecticidal toxins, some of which are expressed in insect-resistant transgenic crops

2016

Morganella morganii

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

Female beetles were previously shown to use phenol as their sex pheromone produced by symbiotic bacteria in the accessory or colleterial gland

2016

Morganella morganii

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

produces phenol as the sex pheromone of the host from tyrosine in the colleterial gland

2016

Gluconobacter

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

produce volatile substances that attract female D. suzukii

2016

Komagataeibacter

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

produce volatile substances that attract female D. suzukii

2016

Fungi
Extracellular

Inducing host pines to produce 3-carene, an attractant of the beetle

2016

Sirex noctilio

Hymenoptera

Fungi
Extracellular

attraction of female S. noctilio towards volatiles of their fungal symbiont

2015

Fungi
Extracellular

produced large amounts of 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MB), the major component in the beetles' aggregation pheromone blend

2015

Fungi
Extracellular

produced large amounts of 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MB), the major component in the beetles' aggregation pheromone blend

2015

Fungi

produce beetle aggregation pheromones

2015

Fungi

produced large amounts of 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (MB), the major component in the beetles’ aggregation pheromone blend, facilitating aggregation behavior

2015

Bacteria
Intracellular

can synthesize thiamine

2010

Manduca sexta

Lepidoptera

Bacteria

produces a small-molecule antibiotic (E)-1,3-dihydroxy-2-(isopropyl)-5-(2-phenylethenyl)benzene (ST) that also acts as an inhibitor of phenoloxidase (PO) in the insect host Manduca sexta.

2007

Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella oxytoca and Bacillus spp. produce the volatile alkyl disulfides present in the fecal pellets, which serve as kairomones to attract the parasitoid Diadromus pulchellus to the moth host

2004

Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella oxytoca and Bacillus spp. produce the volatile alkyl disulfides present in the fecal pellets, which serve as kairomones to attract the parasitoid Diadromus pulchellus to the moth host

2004

Myrmeleon bore

Neuroptera

Bacteria
Intracellular and extracellular

the paralysing toxin produced by bacterial endosymbionts in the saliva of Myrmeleon bore larvae is a homologue of GroEL, a protective heat-shock protein known as a molecular chaperone.

2001

Termitomyces

Basidiomycota

Fungi
Extracellular

produce several known drimanes and drimenol-type sesquiterpenoids, which are C15 bicyclic sesquiterpenes

1994

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