Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Pantoea agglomerans

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Pantoea agglomerans produces an antifungal and antibacterial molecule, serving as an antimicrobial defense against gut pathogens.
Antimicrobial Activity

2002
Bacteria
Extracellular

2024
Gilliamella apicola

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Gilliamella apicola possesses strain-level variations in its ability for sugar utilization, which might be important for host food digestion (carbohydrate metabolism).
Carbohydrate Metabolism

2020
Gilliamella apicola

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Gilliamella apicola with PL-CE gene clusters is responsible for the breakdown of pectin in the gut (carbohydrate metabolism/pectin hydrolysis).
Carbohydrate Metabolism

2019
Bacteria
Extracellular

Bifidobacterium asteroides colonization alters the brain neurotransmitter and gene expression patterns, which might be associated with a unique PUL-like genomic region (developmental modulation).
Developmental Modulation

2021
Bacteria
Extracellular

Bifidobacterium asteroides is specifically enriched in Glycoside Hydrolases (GHs) organized into Polysaccharide Utilization Loci (PULs) and expressed in response to different hemicelluloses (carbohydrate metabolism).
Carbohydrate Metabolism

2019
Snodgrassella

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

S. alvi is responsible for maintaining anoxia in the gut by using acetate to fuel oxygen-consuming respiratory activity, which is crucial for the appropriate metabolism of other gut symbionts (growth regulation/carbohydrate metabolism).
Growth Regulation

2017
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