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
Pectobacterium

Pseudomonadota

Bacteria

Pectobacterium may help Pseudoregma bambucicola feed on the stalks of bamboo, suggesting a role in cellulose hydrolysis.

2021

Muscidae

Brazil, USA, Singap…

Bacteria
Extracellular

2017

Bacteria
Intracellular

Candidatus Symbiopectobacterium endolongispinus is part of a nested symbiotic arrangement, where one bacterium lives inside another bacterium, which is thought to have occurred in building the mosaic metabolic pathways seen in mitochondria and plastids.

2016

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