Functional Symbionts

60 records

Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Chryseobacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

gut microbiome

2016
Bacteria
Extracellular

2014
Bacteria
Intracellular

may provide metabolic precursors to the flavobacterial endosymbiont
Nutrient provision

2014
Bacteria

could be supplying most of these precursors for the amino acid biosynthesis as it has the potential to make ribulose-5P from ribose-1P and also PEP and pyruvate from glycolysis. It is also capable of producing homocysteine from homoserine for methionine biosynthesis,
Nutrient provision

2014
Bacteria

axenic larvae cannot develop
Growth and Development

2014
Bacteria

axenic larvae cannot develop
Growth and Development

2014
Bacteria

axenic larvae cannot develop
Growth and Development

2014
Bacteria

2013
Bacteria
Intracellular

2013
Bacteria
Intracellular

2013
Sulcia muelleri

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

provision host insects with the essential amino acids that their hosts can neither synthesize
Nutrient provision

2013

Aphytis melinus

Hymenoptera
Bacteria
Intracellular

can provision essential amino acids without a reciprocal bacterial partner
Nutrient provision

2013
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

use nitrogenous wastes in essential amino acid and vitamin biosynthesis
Nitrogen fixation Nutrient provision

2012
Sulcia muelleri

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

involved in the production of seven essential amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, valine, threonine, lysine, arginine, and phenylalanine)
Nutrient provision

2010
Sulcia muelleri

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

support the production of eight of the 10 essential amino acids by Sulcia (arginine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, lysine, threonine, isoleucine, leucine, and valine),
Nutrient provision

2009
Bacteria

2009
Bacteria

codes for the complete urea cycle that, in combination with urease, produces ammonia as an end product
Nitrogen fixation

2009
Bacteria

can recycle nitrogen from urea and ammonia, which are uric acid degradation products, into glutamate, using urease and glutamate dehydrogenase
Nitrogen fixation

2009
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

2007
Bacteria

responsible for essential amino acid biosynthesis
Nutrient provision

2007
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