Functional Symbionts

339 records

Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Burkholderia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

providing host insects with almost all essential amino acids and several B vitamins

2023

Bacteria
Extracellular

provide nutrients that cannot be obtained from plant sap food sources

2023

Bacteria
Intracellular

Carsonella produces most essential amino acids (EAAs) for C. pyricola, Psyllophila complements the genes missing in Carsonella for the tryptophan pathway and synthesizes some vitamins and carotenoids

2023

Pantoea

Pseudomonadota

Plautia stali

Hemiptera

Bacteria
Intracellular

Their primary contribution to host fitness is deduced as supplementation of nutrients such as essential amino acids and vitamins

2022

Bombyx mori

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

B. subtilis can generate a variety of primary and secondary metabolites, such as B vitamins and antimicrobial compounds, to provide micronutrients and enhance the pathogen resistance of their insect host; The antimicrobial compounds secreted by B. subtilis were the primary driving force for the reconstruction of intestinal microbiota

2022

Bacteria
Intracellular

collaborative arginine biosynthesis

2022

Bacteria
Intracellular

collaborative arginine biosynthesis

2022

Ericerus pela

Hemiptera

Fungi
Extracellular

supply complementary nutrition to E. pela

2022

Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

may hydrolysing nitrogenous waste and providing metabolizable nitrogen for B. dorsalis

2022

Morganella morganii

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

may hydrolysing nitrogenous waste and providing metabolizable nitrogen for B. dorsalis

2022

Bacteria

symbiotic bacteria may contribute to nitrogen transformation in the larvae of B. dorsalis in the enclosed environment of fruit pulp,core bacteria mediated essential amino acid (arginine excluded) biosynthesis by ammonium assimilation and transamination

2022

Bombella apis A29

Pseudomonadota

Apis mellifera

Hymenoptera

Bacteria

synthesize all essential amino acids and significantly alters the amino acid content of synthetic larval diet, largely by supplying the essential amino acid lysine

2022

Bacteria
Extracellular

symbiont removal caused severe shortfalls of some essential amino acids, including branched-chain and aromatic amino acids

2022

Bacteria
Extracellular

provides its host with at least some B vitamins

2022

Penicillium

Ascomycota

Fungi

Attracting egg laying, promote the emergence of flies by providing the B group vitamin, pyridoxine

2022

Bacteria

gut microbiota of a host for nutritional needs and survival

2022

Bacteria

gut microbiota of a host for nutritional needs and survival

2022

Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

It supplies the host with vitamins and essential amino acids, such as arginine and methionine that aphids cannot synthesize or derive insufficiently from their diet, the phloem sap of plants

2022

Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

obligatory nutritional symbiont

2022

Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota

Sipha maydis

Hemiptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

producing of certain B vitamins (in particular biotin/B7 and riboflavin/B2) and essential amino acids

2022

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