Functional Symbionts

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Records of insect symbionts with verified function from literatures.

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Host Insect Classification Localization Function Function Tags Year Edit
Chryseobacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Chryseobacterium is part of the mosquito midgut community, but its specific function related to CHIKV infection in Aedes aegypti requires investigation.

2024
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Blattabacterium endosymbionts directly or indirectly influence the composition of other bacterial populations by reducing microbial diversity within the host, Supella longipalpa.
Other

2024
Bacteria
Intracellular

Blattabacterium cuenoti serves as the obligate endosymbiont and primary nutritional provider, contributing to amino acid provision and affecting uric acid storage in Blattella germanica.
Amino Acid Provision

2024
Bacteria

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

2024

Panesthiinae

Australian

Bacteria
Intracellular

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

2024
Bacteria
Extracellular

2023
Bacteria
Extracellular

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Sulcia is an obligate endosymbiont that synthesizes essential amino acids to supplement the nutritionally-poor phloem sap diet of its host, Colladonus geminatus.
Amino Acid Provision

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Sulcia is an obligate endosymbiont that synthesizes essential amino acids to supplement the nutritionally-poor phloem sap diet of its host, Colladonus montanus reductus.
Amino Acid Provision

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Sulcia is an obligate endosymbiont that synthesizes essential amino acids to supplement the nutritionally-poor phloem sap diet of its host, Circulifer tenellus.
Amino Acid Provision

2023
Candidatus Sulcia

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Sulcia is an obligate endosymbiont that synthesizes essential amino acids to supplement the nutritionally-poor phloem sap diet of its host, Euscelidius variegatus.
Amino Acid Provision

2023

Bostrichidae

Germany, Czech, Y…

Bacteria

Shikimatogenerans bostrichidophilus encodes the shikimate pathway to produce tyrosine precursors, likely supplementing the beetles' cuticle biosynthesis, sclerotization, and melanization.
Amino Acid Provision

2023
Sulcia muelleri

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

Sulcia muelleri is an obligate endosymbiont responsible for synthesizing eight essential amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, threonine, lysine, arginine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, and valine) in Maiestas dorsalis.
Amino Acid Provision

2023
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

Blattabacterium is associated with contributing to the freeze-tolerance of the insect host, Celatoblatta quinquemaculata.
Temparature Adaptation

2023
Bacteria
Intracellular

Blattabacterium cuenoti is involved in collaborative arginine biosynthesis for the host Cryptocercus punctulatus.
Amino Acid Provision

2022
Bacteria
Intracellular

Blattabacterium cuenoti is involved in collaborative arginine biosynthesis for the host Mastotermes darwiniensis.
Amino Acid Provision

2022
Apibacter

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Extracellular

Apibacter acquisition of genes for the degradation of toxic monosaccharides potentiates its ability to utilize pollen hydrolysis products and enables monosaccharide detoxification for the host Apis cerana.
Carbohydrate Metabolism Detoxification Enzymes

2022
Apibacter

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Extracellular

2022
Myroides

Bacteroidota

Musca altica

Netherlands

Bacteria
Extracellular

2022
Chryseobacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

2022
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