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
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Dasytiphilus stammeri contributes to its host (Listrus sp.) by provisioning tyrosine for cuticle sclerotization and melanization.

2024

Stammera

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Candidatus Stammera is metabolically decoupled in adult beetles to match the nutritional and reproductive requirements of its host, Chelymorpha alternans.

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Aschnera chinzeii provides essential B vitamins and cofactors to its blood-sucking host, Penicillidia jenynsii, including biotin (B7), tetrahydrofolate (B9), riboflavin (B2), and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (B6).

2024

Serratia marcescens

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia marcescens degrades phenols found in unripe citrus within Bactrocera minax larvae, functioning as a key detoxification enzyme provider.

2024

Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota

Diuraphis noxia

South African

Bacteria
Intracellular

2024

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Arsenophonus nilaparvatae infection results in an acquired insecticide sensitivity trait in transinfected planthopper lines, associated with the downregulation of the host's P450 xenobiotic detoxification system.

2024

Stammera

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Stammera produces and supplies pectinases to the alimentary tract of its leaf beetle host, Notosacantha, facilitating plant cell wall digestion.

2024

Pantoea sp. Nvir

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Pantoea sp. Nvir facilitates the nutrition of Nezara viridula by degrading toxic plant metabolites and repressing host plant chemical defenses.

2024

Pantoea sp. Nvir

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Pantoea sp. Nvir plays an important role in modulating the interaction between Nezara viridula and host plants, potentially through detoxification and plant defense repression.

2024

Serratia marcescens

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Serratia marcescens facilitates the nutrition of Nezara viridula by degrading toxic plant metabolites and repressing host plant chemical defenses.

2024

Serratia marcescens

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Serratia marcescens plays an important role in modulating the interaction between Nezara viridula and host plants, potentially through detoxification and plant defense repression.

2024

Sodalis praecaptivus

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Sodalis praecaptivus plays an important role in modulating the interaction between Nezara viridula and host plants, and is a target for pest control strategies.

2024

Citrobacter freundii

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Citrobacter freundii may produce the semiochemical 4,8-dimethyldecanal (DMD), which is strongly associated with female attraction and host pheromone communication in Tribolium castaneum.

2024

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