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
Rickettsia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

male killing

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia achieves Male Killing (MK) by impairing the host dosage compensation system, triggering abnormal apoptosis in male embryos, and disrupting the sex-determination cascade via doublesex (dsx) splicing variants in Homona magnanima.

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia achieves Male Killing (MK) by triggering abnormal apoptosis in male embryos and disrupting the sex-determination cascade via doublesex (dsx) splicing variants in Homona magnanima.

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Formica

Switzerland, Finlan…

Bacteria

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Tuta absoluta

Argentina

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Menacanthus eurysternus

South Africa, Japan…

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia (Supergroup F) is a causative agent of cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in the louse Menacanthus eurysternus.

2023

Rickettsia belli

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Homalotylus sp.

Englandraine

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Oomyzus scaposus

Englandraine

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia is involved in the feminization and parthenogenesis of the aphid Melanaphis sacchari.

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia significantly affects the metabolism of Habrobracon hebetor larvae and alters the activity of its digestive enzymes.

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia can inhibit the presence of Thorsellia and Serratia in Culex quinquefasciatus.

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia protects Drosophila melanogaster against two naturally occurring and virulent viral pathogens: La Jolla virus (LJV) and Newfield virus (NFV).

2023

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia increases the rate of superparasitism by infected female Trichogramma compared with uninfected females.

2023

Wolbachia wFur

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

Wolbachia wFur manipulates the sexual development and reproduction (male killing) of the insect host Ostrinia furnacalis.

2022

Rickettsia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2022

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