Functional Symbionts

63 records

Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

can degrade plant polysaccharides and confer their host optimal adaptation to its environment by modulating its metabolism
Sugar metabolism

2017

Muscidae

Diptera
Bacteria
Extracellular

2017
Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota

Brithys crini

Lepidoptera
Bacteria

degradation of plant alkaloids
Plant secondary metabolites

2016
Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota

Pyrrhocoridae

Hemiptera
Bacteria

2015
Klebsiella spp.

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

activity of lignocellulose- degrading enzymes
Digestive enzymes

2015
Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

possess cellulose degrading activity
Digestive enzymes

2015
Bacteria
Extracellular

possess cellulose degrading activity
Digestive enzymes

2015
Klebsiella variicola

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

possess cellulose degrading activity
Digestive enzymes

2015
Bacteria
Extracellular

associated with cellulolytic enzymes
Digestive enzymes

2014
Bacteria
Extracellular

The ability of these arthropods to feed on wood, foliage and detritus is likely to involve catalysis by different types of cellulases/hemicellulases that are secreted by gut microbiota to digest the structural and recalcitrant lignocellulosic residues in their foods.
Digestive enzymes

2013
Bacteria
Extracellular

The ability of these arthropods to feed on wood, foliage and detritus is likely to involve catalysis by different types of cellulases/hemicellulases that are secreted by gut microbiota to digest the structural and recalcitrant lignocellulosic residues in their foods.
Digestive enzymes

2013

Termitidae

Blattodea
Bacteria
Extracellular

The ability of these arthropods to feed on wood, foliage and detritus is likely to involve catalysis by different types of cellulases/hemicellulases that are secreted by gut microbiota to digest the structural and recalcitrant lignocellulosic residues in their foods.
Digestive enzymes

2013
Klebsiella pneumonia

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

provide nitrogen fixation to hosts for desert environments
Nitrogen fixation

2013
Bacteria

could play an important role for the insect by degrading complex dietary components, providing nutrient supplementation, or detoxifying noxious chemicals (e.g. cyclopropenoic fatty acids or gossypol) in the diet
Digestive enzymes Plant secondary metabolites

2012
Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota

Bombyx mori

Lepidoptera
Bacteria

producing lipase in a gut environment
Digestive enzymes

2011

Bombyx mori

Lepidoptera
Bacteria
Extracellular

degradation of cellulose, xylan, pectin and starch
Digestive enzymes

2010
Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella oxytoca and Bacillus spp. produce the volatile alkyl disulfides present in the fecal pellets, which serve as kairomones to attract the parasitoid Diadromus pulchellus to the moth host
Chemical biosynthesis

2004
Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella oxytoca and Bacillus spp. produce the volatile alkyl disulfides present in the fecal pellets, which serve as kairomones to attract the parasitoid Diadromus pulchellus to the moth host
Chemical biosynthesis

2004

Myrmeleon bore

Neuroptera
Bacteria
Intracellular and extracellular

the paralysing toxin produced by bacterial endosymbionts in the saliva of Myrmeleon bore larvae is a homologue of GroEL, a protective heat-shock protein known as a molecular chaperone.
Chemical biosynthesis

2001
Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Extracellular

plastic-degrading properties against bioplastics such as PBSA, PBS and PCL.
Plastic degradation

2020
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