Functional Symbionts

97 records

Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Cardinium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

significantly decreased the diversity of the microbial community

2024
Chryseobacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Extracellular

2024
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Blattabacterium endosymbionts could directly or indirectly influence the composition of other bacterial populations by reducing diversity

2024
Bacteroides

Bacteroidota

Hyphantria cunea

Lepidoptera
Bacteria
Intracellular

enhance the compatibility of invasive pests to new hosts and enable more rapid adaptation to new habitats.

2024
Bacteria
Intracellular

obligate endosymbiont

2024
Bacteria

possessed several genes in essential amino acid biosynthesis and seemed to perform roles in providing nutrients to the host
Nutrient provision

2024

Panesthiinae

Blattodea
Bacteria
Intracellular

enables hosts to subsist on a nutrient-poor diet; endosymbiont genome erosions are associated with repeated host transitions to an underground life
Nutrient provision

2024
Bacteria
Extracellular

2023

Tanna sp.

Hemiptera
Bacteria
Extracellular

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

produce essential amino acids lacking in the leafhoppers' phloem sap diet
Nutrient provision

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

produce essential amino acids lacking in the leafhoppers' phloem sap diet
Nutrient provision

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

produce essential amino acids lacking in the leafhoppers' phloem sap diet
Nutrient provision

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

produce essential amino acids lacking in the leafhoppers' phloem sap diet
Nutrient provision

2023
Bacteria

Cardinium could inhibit the defense response of the host plant and decrease the detoxification metabolism ability of the host whitefly, decrease the expression of detoxification metabolism genes, especially the uridine 5'-diphospho-glucuronyltransferase and P450 genes,
Plant defense

2023
Sediminibacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Extracellular

2023

Bostrichidae

Coleoptera
Bacteria

complement the function of Shikimatogenerans by recycling urea and provisioning the essential amino acid lysine, thereby providing additional benefits on nitrogen-poor diets
Nutrient provision

2023

Bostrichidae

Coleoptera
Bacteria

encodes the shikimate pathway to produce tyrosine precursors in its severely reduced genome, likely supplementing the beetles’ cuticle biosynthesis, sclerotisation, and melanisation.
Nutrient provision

2023
Bacteroides

Bacteroidota

Leptocybe invasa

Hymenoptera
Bacteria

Differences in Male-Killing Rickettsia Bacteria between Lineages of the Invasive Gall-Causing Pest Leptocybe invasa
Reproductive manipulation

2023
Sulcia muelleri

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Sulcia is responsible for synthesizing eight essential amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, threonine, lysine, arginine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, and valine)
Nutrient provision

2023
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

contribute to freeze-tolerance of the insect hosts

2023
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