Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia sp. Se-PFBMAAmG is a strain possessing a siderophore biosynthetic pathway (e.g., desferrioxamine B), which is hypothesized to help the host (Pharaxonotha floridana) tolerate cycad toxins.

2023

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia sp. Se-RSBMAAmG is a strain possessing a siderophore biosynthetic pathway (e.g., desferrioxamine B), which is hypothesized to help the host (Rhopalotria slossonae) tolerate cycad toxins.

2023

Serratia sp. Se-RSmG

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia sp. Se-RSmG is a strain possessing a siderophore biosynthetic pathway (e.g., desferrioxamine B), which is hypothesized to help the host (Rhopalotria slossonae) tolerate cycad toxins.

2023

Serratia sp. PF2-63

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia sp. PF2-63 is a strain possessing a siderophore biosynthetic pathway (e.g., desferrioxamine B), which is hypothesized to help the host (Pharaxonotha floridana) tolerate cycad toxins.

2023

Serratia sp. PF-27

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia sp. PF-27 is a strain possessing a siderophore biosynthetic pathway (e.g., desferrioxamine B), which is hypothesized to help the host (Pharaxonotha floridana) tolerate cycad toxins.

2023

Serratia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins (e.g., azoxyglycosides and BMAA) in Rhopalotria slossonae.

2023

Serratia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins (e.g., azoxyglycosides and BMAA) in Pharaxonotha floridana.

2023

Serratia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia might play a role in detoxifying cycad toxins (e.g., azoxyglycosides and BMAA) in Eumaeus atala.

2023

Buchnera aphidicola

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Buchnera aphidicola (an endosymbiont) can synthesize and provide essential nutrients (e.g., amino acids) for its host, Acyrthosiphon pisum.

2023

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Regiella insecticola infection in Sitobion avenae reduces the parasitic success of the parasitoid Aphidius gifuensis, increases wasp development time, and decreases wasp emergence weight.

2023

Serratia marcescens

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Serratia marcescens is a gut bacterium that demonstrates terpenoid-degrading activity, showing the highest degradation rates for D-camphor, linalool, and eucalyptol in Pagiophloeus tsushimanus larvae.

2023

Bacteria

2023

Arsenophonus sp.

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

2023

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wigglesworthia glossinidia provides symbiont-derived factors, likely B vitamins, which are critical for the proper function of lipid biosynthesis and lipolysis, thereby maintaining Glossina morsitans fecundity.

2023

Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella is a gut bacterium with the ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere in Tenebrio molitor.

2023

Pantoea agglomerans

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Pantoea agglomerans is required for the normal development of the thrips Frankliniella occidentalis.

2023

Pantoea agglomerans

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Pantoea agglomerans is required for the normal development of the thrips Frankliniella intonsa.

2023

Pantoea dispersa

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Pantoea dispersa is required for the normal development of the thrips Thrips tabaci.

2023

Bacteria
Extracellular

Candidatus Pantoea bathycoeliae (a core gut symbiont) provides Bathycoelia distincta with nutrients that cannot be obtained from its plant sap food source.

2023

Arsenophonus

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

2023

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