Functional Symbionts

60 records

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

2024
Blattabacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Intracellular

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

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

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
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
Bacteria
Intracellular

collaborative arginine biosynthesis
Nutrient provision

2022
Bacteria
Intracellular

collaborative arginine biosynthesis
Nutrient provision

2022
Apibacter

Bacteroidota

Apis cerana

Hymenoptera
Bacteria
Extracellular

The acquisition of genes for the degradation of the toxic monosaccharides potentiates Apibacter with the ability to utilize the pollen hydrolysis products, at the same time enabling monosaccharide detoxification for the host
Sugar metabolism

2022
Apibacter

Bacteroidota

Apis cerana

Hymenoptera
Bacteria
Extracellular

2022
Myroides

Bacteroidota
Bacteria
Extracellular

2022
Chryseobacterium

Bacteroidota
Bacteria

2022
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