Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Candidatus Macropleicola muticae provides amino acid and B vitamin supplementation and aids in plant biomass digestion for Neohaemonia nigricornis.
Amino Acid Provision B Vitamin Supplementation Plant Biomass Digestion

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Candidatus Macropleicola muticae provides amino acid and B vitamin supplementation and aids in plant biomass digestion for Plateumaris braccata.
Amino Acid Provision B Vitamin Supplementation Plant Biomass Digestion

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Candidatus Macropleicola muticae provides amino acid and B vitamin supplementation and aids in plant biomass digestion for Plateumaris consimilis.
Amino Acid Provision B Vitamin Supplementation Plant Biomass Digestion

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Candidatus Macropleicola muticae provides amino acid and B vitamin supplementation and aids in plant biomass digestion for Plateumaris pusilla.
Amino Acid Provision B Vitamin Supplementation Plant Biomass Digestion

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Candidatus Macropleicola muticae provides amino acid and B vitamin supplementation and aids in plant biomass digestion for Plateumaris rustica.
Amino Acid Provision B Vitamin Supplementation Plant Biomass Digestion

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Candidatus Macropleicola muticae provides amino acid and B vitamin supplementation and aids in plant biomass digestion for Plateumaris sericea.
Amino Acid Provision B Vitamin Supplementation Plant Biomass Digestion

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Erwinia dacicola (the symbiont) may contribute to the larval survival in unripe olives for Bactrocera oleae.
Detoxification Enzymes

2020
Flavobacteriales

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

2020
Bacteria

Burkholderia insecticola triggers midgut closure in the bean bug Riptortus pedestris to prevent secondary bacterial infections of midgut crypts.
Other

2020
Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Buchnera aphidicola (obligate symbiont) is under metabolic constraints or antisense transcripts may reduce its production of pantothenate, resulting in poor Acyrthosiphon pisum performance on pantothenate-free diets.
Vitamin Supplementation

2020
Bacteria

Bacillus aryabhattai exhibits cellulolytic activity in the gut of Bombyx mori.
Cellulose Hydrolysis

2020
Bacteria

Bacillus subtilis BC1 exhibits the activity of an alkaliphilic cellulase with exo/endoglucanase activity and organic solvent, temperature, and pH stability.
Cellulose Hydrolysis

2020
Bacteria
Extracellular

Gut bacteria (Amplicon data) may be essential for improving the efficiency of food utilization in Spodoptera litura.
Digestive Enzymes

2020
Bacteria
Extracellular

Gut bacteria (Metagenome data) may be essential for improving the efficiency of food utilization in Spodoptera litura.
Digestive Enzymes

2020
Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

2020
Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia strains in Homona magnanima show partial strain male killing.
Male Killing

2020
Pantoea carbekii

Pseudomonadota

Halyomorpha halys

China, Japan, South…

Bacteria

Pantoea carbekii provides its host Halyomorpha halys with essential nutrients, vitamins, cofactors, and protection of the most vulnerable stages of early development (1st nymphal stages) via its biofilm-formation properties covering the eggs.
Amino Acid Provision Vitamin Supplementation Pathogen Resistance

2020
Arsenophonus sp.

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Arsenophonus sp. (secondary symbiont reduction) led to reduction of the total life span and intrinsic rate of natural increase as well as appearance of deformed dead offspring in Aphis gossypii. Arsenophonus and H. defensa contribute to the fitness of A. gossypii by enhancing its performance.
Growth Regulation Fertility

2020
Arsenophonus sp.

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria

Arsenophonus sp. (symbiont reduction) led to reduction of the total life span and intrinsic rate of natural increase as well as appearance of deformed dead offspring in Aphis gossypii.
Growth Regulation Developmental Modulation

2020
Hamiltonella defensa

Pseudomonadota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Hamiltonella defensa (secondary symbiont reduction) led to reduction of the total life span and intrinsic rate of natural increase as well as appearance of deformed dead offspring in Aphis gossypii. H. defensa and Arsenophonus contribute to the fitness of A. gossypii by enhancing its performance.
Growth Regulation Fertility

2020
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