Functional Symbionts
332 recordsRecords of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.
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| Host Insect | Classification | Localization | Function | Function Tags | Year | Edit | |
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Stenotrophomonas
Pseudomonadota |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Stenotrophomonas might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins (e.g., azoxyglycosides and BMAA) in Rhopalotria slossonae. |
2023 |
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Stenotrophomonas
Pseudomonadota |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Stenotrophomonas might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins (e.g., azoxyglycosides and BMAA) in Pharaxonotha floridana. |
2023 |
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Stenotrophomonas
Pseudomonadota |
Eumaeus atalaUSA |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Stenotrophomonas might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins (e.g., azoxyglycosides and BMAA) in Eumaeus atala. |
2023 |
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Agrotis ipsilonEgypt |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Gut bacterial communities (Amplicon data) in Agrotis ipsilon larvae are capable of degrading various polysaccharides (including cellulose, xylan, pectin, and starch) and producing lipolytic and protease enzymes to aid host metabolism. |
2023 |
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Hermetia illucensKenya |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Gut bacteria (Metatranscriptomic data) are involved in the degradation of lignocellulosic biomass in the black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens). |
2023 |
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Candidatus Pantoea bathycoeliae
Pseudomonadota |
Bathycoelia distinctaSouth Africa |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Candidatus Pantoea bathycoeliae (a core gut symbiont) provides Bathycoelia distincta with nutrients that cannot be obtained from its plant sap food source. |
2023 |
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Hermetia illucensItaly |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Gut bacteria (Amplicon data) display optimized plastic-degrading ability when Hermetia illucens larvae are fed plastic-containing diets. |
2023 |
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Wolbachia
Pseudomonadota |
Menacanthus eurysternusSouth Africa, Japan… |
Bacteria
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Intracellular
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Wolbachia (Supergroup F) is a causative agent of cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in the louse Menacanthus eurysternus. |
2023 |
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Beauveria bassiana
Ascomycota |
Drosophila melanogasterChina |
Fungi
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Beauveria bassiana (an entomopathogenic fungus) evolved a defensin-like protein (BbAMP1) to suppress the insect cuticular microbiomes and facilitate fungal infection of Drosophila melanogaster. |
2023 |
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Acinetobacter
Pseudomonadota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Acinetobacter increases the resistance of Anopheles sinensis (by analogy to An. gambiae) to Plasmodium development, partly by inducing anti-Plasmodium factors in the Imd immune pathway. |
2023 |
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Erwinia
Pseudomonadota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Erwinia has a potential role to interact with malaria parasites and confer pathogen resistance in Anopheles sinensis. |
2023 |
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Enterobacteriaceae
Pseudomonadota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Enterobacteriaceae has a potential role to interact with malaria parasites and confer pathogen resistance in Anopheles sinensis. |
2023 |
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Pantoea
Pseudomonadota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Pantoea has a potential role to interact with malaria parasites and confer pathogen resistance in Anopheles sinensis. |
2023 |
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Pseudomonas
Pseudomonadota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Pseudomonas is the most prevalent microbiota in Plasmodium-negative Anopheles sinensis groups and protects mosquitoes from the invasion of malaria parasites, suggesting a role in pathogen resistance. |
2023 |
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Serratia
Pseudomonadota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Serratia might block the sporogonic development of P. vivax parasites (by analogy to S. marcescens in An. albimanus), conferring pathogen resistance in Anopheles sinensis. |
2023 |
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Staphylococcus
Bacillota |
Anopheles sinensisSouth Korea |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Staphylococcus has a potential role to interact with malaria parasites and confer pathogen resistance in Anopheles sinensis. |
2023 |
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Paederus fuscipesIran |
Bacteria
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2023 |
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Xylocopa auripennisChina |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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2023 |
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Xylocopa caeruleaChina |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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2023 |
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Pseudomonas
Pseudomonadota |
Monochamus alternatusChina |
Bacteria
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Extracellular
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Pseudomonas shows strong inhibitory activity against the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana by reducing fungal conidial germination and growth in Monochamus alternatus. |
2022 |