Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Bacteria

Lactococcus lactis increases the resistance of Bactrocera dorsalis to \beta-cypermethrin by regulating cytochrome P450 (P450) and α-glutathione S-transferase (GST) activities via the CncC pathway.

2024

Bacteria
Extracellular

2024

Bacteria

Candidatus Walczuchella possesses genes for essential amino acid biosynthesis, suggesting it provides key nutrients to its host, Icerya aegyptiaca.

2024

Lactococcus

Bacillota

Bacteria

Lactococcus is predicted to carry genes related to hydrocarbon, fatty acid, and chitin degradation, potentially assisting the host, Novius pumilus, in digesting the wax shell covering scale insects.

2024

Bacteria
Extracellular

2024

Pantoea sp. Nvir

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Pantoea sp. Nvir facilitates the nutrition of Nezara viridula by degrading toxic plant metabolites and repressing host plant chemical defenses.

2024

Pantoea sp. Nvir

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Pantoea sp. Nvir plays an important role in modulating the interaction between Nezara viridula and host plants, potentially through detoxification and plant defense repression.

2024

Serratia marcescens

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Serratia marcescens facilitates the nutrition of Nezara viridula by degrading toxic plant metabolites and repressing host plant chemical defenses.

2024

Serratia marcescens

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Serratia marcescens plays an important role in modulating the interaction between Nezara viridula and host plants, potentially through detoxification and plant defense repression.

2024

Sodalis praecaptivus

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular and Extracellular

Sodalis praecaptivus plays an important role in modulating the interaction between Nezara viridula and host plants, and is a target for pest control strategies.

2024

Bacteria
Extracellular

2024

Bacteria

2024

Citrobacter freundii

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Citrobacter freundii may produce the semiochemical 4,8-dimethyldecanal (DMD), which is strongly associated with female attraction and host pheromone communication in Tribolium castaneum.

2024

Escherichia coli

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Escherichia coli may produce the semiochemical 4,8-dimethyldecanal (DMD), which is strongly associated with female attraction and host pheromone communication in Tribolium castaneum.

2024

Enterobacter

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Enterobacter (as part of a probiotic consortium) significantly influences the intestinal microbiota structure, leading to improved functional potential and increased carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in Ceratitis capitata.

2024

Klebsiella oxytoca

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Klebsiella oxytoca (as part of a probiotic consortium) significantly influences the intestinal microbiota structure, leading to improved functional potential and increased carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in Ceratitis capitata.

2024

Bacteria
Extracellular

Lactococcus lactis (as part of a probiotic consortium) significantly influences the intestinal microbiota structure, leading to improved functional potential and increased carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) in Ceratitis capitata.

2024

Rickettsia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Rickettsia infection in Bemisia tabaci MED stimulates juvenile hormone synthesis, resulting in increased fecundity and a female-biased sex ratio.

2024

Panesthiinae

Australian

Bacteria
Intracellular

Blattabacterium cuenoti is an endosymbiont whose presence enables its host (Panesthiinae cockroach) to subsist on a nutrient-poor diet.

2024

Sphingomonas sp.

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Extracellular

Sphingomonas sp. provides a protective effect to Spodoptera frugiperda against chlorantraniliprole stress.

2024

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