Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Symbiopectobacterium endolongispinus is part of a nested symbiotic arrangement, where one bacterium lives inside another bacterium, which is thought to have occurred in building the mosaic metabolic pathways seen in mitochondria and plastids.
Other

2016
Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

Klebsiella is involved in the degradation of plant alkaloids.
Detoxification Enzymes

2016

Pentalonia nigronervosa

MadagascarBurundi, …

Bacteria
Intracellular

Buchnera aphidicola (BPn) provides essential amino acids to its host that are absent in plant phloem.
Amino Acid Provision

2015
Buchnera

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Elimination of Buchnera significantly reduced the formation of winged morphs, body mass, and fecundity in S. avenae; it may disrupt nutrient acquisition in aphids and alter transgenerational phenotypic expression.
Nutrient Provision Fertility Growth Regulation

2015
Arsenophonus

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Arsenophonus might be correlated with the virulence variation of the brown planthopper.
Toxin Production

2015
Serratia

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Serratia might be correlated with the virulence variation of the brown planthopper.
Toxin Production

2015
Hamiltonella defensa

Pseudomonadota

Acyrthosiphon pisum

USA, Germany, France

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa and Rickettsiella viridis co-infection causes aphid larvae to become darker green.
Pigmentation Alteration

2015
Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Buchnera aphidicola disruption down-regulated the expression of the host's Mp63 salivary protein gene.
Other

2015
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa provides resistance to certain parasitic wasps, such as Aphidius.
Natural Enemy Resistance

2015
Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota

Pyrrhocoridae

Germany, Japan, Ind…

Bacteria

2015
Arsenophonus

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

Arsenophonus (a facultative endosymbiont) mediates dietary breadth in a polyphagous herbivore.
Feeding Habit Alteration

2015
Bacteria
Intracellular

The genome of Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa revealed that this secondary symbiont can not only provide vitamins and cofactors but also complete the missing steps of some of the metabolic pathways of Portiera.
Amino Acid Provision Vitamin Supplementation

2015
Erwinia sp.

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

Erwinia sp. produces cellulase and amylase enzymes.
Cellulose Hydrolysis Carbohydrate Metabolism

2015
Pantoea sp.

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

Pantoea sp. produces cellulase and amylase enzymes.
Cellulose Hydrolysis Carbohydrate Metabolism

2015
Klebsiella spp.

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

Klebsiella spp. exhibits activity of lignocellulose-degrading enzymes.
Cellulose Hydrolysis

2015
Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella oxytoca possesses cellulose degrading activity.
Cellulose Hydrolysis

2015
Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella pneumoniae possesses cellulose degrading activity.
Cellulose Hydrolysis

2015
Klebsiella variicola

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella variicola possesses cellulose degrading activity.
Cellulose Hydrolysis

2015
Candidatus Moranella

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Moranella is an obligate nutritional bacterial symbiont.
Nutrient Provision

2015
Bacteria
Extracellular

2015
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