Functional Symbionts

28 records

Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Serratia symbiotica

Pseudomonadota

Lachninae

Hemiptera

Bacteria

2017

Cinara cedri

Hemiptera

Bacteria
Extracellular

provides essential amino acids, coenzymes, and vitamins to enable it to adapt to a plant-based juice-based lifestyle

2017

Serratia symbiotica

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

with a single naturally occurring isolate of Serratia symbiotica, wasps showed a significant preference for plants that had been fed on by aphids without the symbiont

2017

Serratia symbiotica

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2013

Bacteria
Intracellular

closer to an obligate endosymbiont than to other facultative S. symbiotica

2012

Serratia symbiotica

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2011

Serratia symbiotica

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

the subfamily Lachninae harbors two coprimary bacteria that fulfill the metabolic needs of the whole consortium

2011

Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota

Cinara cedri

Hemiptera

Bacteria
Intracellular

2011

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