Functional Symbionts

323 records

Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Pantoea dispersa

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

detoxify benzoxazinoids (secondary metabolites produced by maize) and promote caterpillar growth

2024

Acetobacter

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

enhancing the brain levels of tyrosine decarboxylase 2 (Tdc2), which is an enzyme that synthesizes octopamine (OA)

2024

Lactobacillus

Bacillota

Bacteria
Extracellular

enhancing the brain levels of tyrosine decarboxylase 2 (Tdc2), which is an enzyme that synthesizes octopamine (OA)

2024

Bacteria
Extracellular

2024

Burkholderia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

this bacterial enrichment played a significant role in enhancing insect host reproduction

2024

Bacteria
Extracellular

the microbiota modulates its host expression profile during ontogeny which suggests that the microbiota is essential to BSFL’s normal development.

2023

Bacteria
Extracellular

2023

Sodalis pierantonius

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

may infulence immunity, metabolism, metal control, apoptosis, and bacterial stress response

2023

Bacteria and Fungi

The dramatic replacements of dominant bacteria in the plant-feeding true bugs may help to drive the adaptive radiation of plant-feeding true bugs in the early Cretaceous

2023

Bacteria
Extracellular

associated with cellulose degradation

2023

Bacteria

degrade both natural and synthetic plastic polymers

2023

Bacteria
Extracellular

suggesting the occurrence of an unprecedented desferrioxamine-like biosynthetic pathway,including desferrioxamine B, which may help tolerating diets rich in azoxyglycosides, BMAA, and other cycad toxins, including a possible role for bacterial siderophores

2023

Pantoea sp. Pa-EAmG

Pseudomonadota

Eumaeus atala

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

suggesting the occurrence of an unprecedented desferrioxamine-like biosynthetic pathway,including desferrioxamine B, which may help tolerating diets rich in azoxyglycosides, BMAA, and other cycad toxins, including a possible role for bacterial siderophores

2023

Pantoea sp. Pa-EAmG

Pseudomonadota

Eumaeus atala

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

suggesting the occurrence of an unprecedented desferrioxamine-like biosynthetic pathway,including desferrioxamine B, which may help tolerating diets rich in azoxyglycosides, BMAA, and other cycad toxins, including a possible role for bacterial siderophores

2023

Pantoea sp. Pa-EAmG

Pseudomonadota

Eumaeus atala

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

suggesting the occurrence of an unprecedented desferrioxamine-like biosynthetic pathway,including desferrioxamine B, which may help tolerating diets rich in azoxyglycosides, BMAA, and other cycad toxins, including a possible role for bacterial siderophores

2023

Pantoea sp. EA-12

Pseudomonadota

Eumaeus atala

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

suggesting the occurrence of an unprecedented desferrioxamine-like biosynthetic pathway,including desferrioxamine B, which may help tolerating diets rich in azoxyglycosides, BMAA, and other cycad toxins, including a possible role for bacterial siderophores

2023

Eumaeus atala

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

suggesting the occurrence of an unprecedented desferrioxamine-like biosynthetic pathway,including desferrioxamine B, which may help tolerating diets rich in azoxyglycosides, BMAA, and other cycad toxins, including a possible role for bacterial siderophores

2023

Pantoea

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins

2023

Pantoea

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins

2023

Pantoea

Pseudomonadota

Eumaeus atala

Lepidoptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins

2023

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