Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia upregulates the expression of Pale and Ddc, mediates the expression of dopamine-related genes, increases total sleep time, and decreases sleep quality in both male and female Drosophila melanogaster.

2018

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2017

Klebsiella

Pseudomonadota

Glossina sp.

Burkina Faso, Ugan…

Bacteria

2017

Rickettsia

Pseudomonadota

Glossina sp.

Burkina Faso, Ugan…

Bacteria

2017

Spiroplasma

Mycoplasmatota

Glossina sp.

Burkina Faso, Ugan…

Bacteria
Intracellular

High Spiroplasma density may play a role in larval fitness.

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia causes a decrease in memory retention.

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia causes shorter memory retention in infected wasps, which may select for reduced memory retention to induce dispersal and avoid competition with uninfected wasps.

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bemisia tabaci

Croatia, Montenegr…

Bacteria
Extracellular

Wolbachia leads to female bias and may affect host resistance, acting as a reproductive manipulator.

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia infection increased the host's sensitivity to oxidative stress, rather than decreasing it.

2017

Wolbachia sp.

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

2017

Bacteria
Intracellular

2017

Bacteria
Intracellular

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia strain wMel changes the composition of gut commensal bacteria in the fruit fly.

2017

Wolbachiaspp.

Pseudomonadota

Calliphoridae

Brazil, USA, Singap…

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia spp. plays important roles in manipulating invertebrate reproductive biology by causing male killing, feminization, parthenogenesis, or cytoplasmic incompatibility.

2017

Wolbachiaspp.

Pseudomonadota

Muscidae

Brazil, USA, Singap…

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia spp. plays important roles in manipulating invertebrate reproductive biology by causing male killing, feminization, parthenogenesis, or cytoplasmic incompatibility.

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

Wolbachia induces costs to life-history and reproductive traits (decreased larval survival and adult longevity, and prolonged developmental period) and exhibits cytoplasmic incompatibility between uninfected females and infected males.

2017

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

2016

Spiroplasma

Mycoplasmatota

Bacteria
Extracellular

The presence of Spiroplasma (together with Wolbachia) in D. melanogaster up-regulated certain immune-related genes.

2016

Wolbachia

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria
Intracellular

The presence of Wolbachia (together with Spiroplasma) in D. melanogaster up-regulated certain immune-related genes.

2016

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