Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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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
Bacteria
Intracellular

the symbionts accelerate their host's cuticle formation and thereby enable it to quickly reach a cuticle quality threshold that confers structural protection against predation and fungal infection

2022
Bacteria
Intracellular

Possibly tyrosine precursor provisioning
Nutrient provision

2018
Bacteria
Intracellular

Possibly tyrosine precursor provisioning
Nutrient provision

2018
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