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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
yeast-like symbiont Ascomycota	Nilaparvata lugens Hemiptera	Fungi	Intracellular	supporting sterol biosynthesis and nitrogen recycling for the host	Nitrogen fixation	2015
Paludibacter propionicigenes Bacteroidota	Odontotaenius disjunctus Coleoptera	Bacteria	Extracellular	microbial fixation of nitrogen that is important for this beetle to subsist on woody biomass	Nitrogen fixation	2014
Paludibacter propionicigenes Bacteroidota	Odontotaenius disjunctus Coleoptera	Bacteria		plays an important role in nitrogen fixation	Nitrogen fixation	2014
gut bacteria	Anoplophora glabripennis Coleoptera	Bacteria	Extracellular	gut microbes contribute to nitrogen provisioning	Nutrient provision Nitrogen fixation	2014
Klebsiella pneumonia Pseudomonadota	Conorhynchus palumbus Coleoptera	Bacteria	Extracellular	provide nitrogen fixation to hosts for desert environments	Nitrogen fixation	2013
Blattabacterium Bacteroidota	Mastotermes darwiniensis Blattodea	Bacteria	Intracellular	use nitrogenous wastes in essential amino acid and vitamin biosynthesis	Nitrogen fixation Nutrient provision	2012
Methylobacterium Pseudomonadota	Saturniidae Lepidoptera	Bacteria	Extracellular	Nitrogen fixation	Nitrogen fixation	2011
Candidatus Blochmanniella floridana Pseudomonadota	Camponotus floridanus Hymenoptera	Bacteria	Intracellular	nutritional contribution of the bacteria to host metabolism by production of essential amino acids and urease-mediated nitrogen recycling	Nitrogen fixation	2010
gut bacteria	ant insects Hymenoptera	Bacteria	Extracellular	bacteria could compensate for the lack of sufficient nitrogen in their hosts' diets	Nitrogen fixation	2009
Blattabacterium strain Bge Bacteroidota	Blattella germanica Blattodea	Bacteria		codes for the complete urea cycle that, in combination with urease, produces ammonia as an end product	Nitrogen fixation	2009
Blochmannia Pseudomonadota	Blattella germanica Blattodea	Bacteria		produce ammonia from dietary urea and then use it as a source of nitrogen	Nitrogen fixation	2009
Blattabacterium str. BPLAN Bacteroidota	Periplaneta americana Blattodea	Bacteria		can recycle nitrogen from urea and ammonia, which are uric acid degradation products, into glutamate, using urease and glutamate dehydrogenase	Nitrogen fixation	2009
Blochmannia floridanus Pseudomonadota	Camponotus Hymenoptera	Bacteria	Intracellular	Blochmannia provide essential amino acids to its host,Camponotus floridanus, and that it may also play a role in nitrogen recycling via its functional urease	Nitrogen fixation Nutrient provision	2007
Blochmannia floridanus Pseudomonadota	Camponotus floridanus Hymenoptera	Bacteria		Blochmannia is able to supply nitrogen and sulfur compounds to the host while it takes advantage of the host metabolic machinery	Nitrogen fixation Nutrient provision	2003
Burkholderia Pseudomonadota	Tetraponera binghami Hymenoptera	Bacteria	Extracellular	Nitrogen fixation	Nitrogen fixation	2002

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