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Symbiont Species	Strain Records	Classification	Function Tags	Total Records
Rickettsiella Pseudomonadota	Myzus persicae Rickettsiella infection causes reduced aphid fecundity, decreased heat tolerance, and modified aphid body color (from l… Acyrthosiphon pisum Rickettsiella (in Acyrthosiphon pisum) protects against the entomopathogen Pandora neoaphidis by reducing mortality and… Acyrthosiphon pisum Rickettsiella changes the insects' body color from red to green in natural populations. Acyrthosiphon pisum Rickettsiella changes the insects' body color from red to green by increasing blue-green polycyclic quinones while havi…	Bacteria	Fertility Pathogen Resistance Pigmentation Alteration Temparature Adaptation	4
Rickettsiella viridis Pseudomonadota	Myzus persicae Rickettsiella viridis endosymbiont infection leads to parasitoids (Diaeretiella rapae) showing a preference for probing… Acyrthosiphon pisum Rickettsiella viridis infection causes young red aphid larvae to become greener at adulthood, which can reduce predatio…	Bacteria	Pathogen Interaction Pigmentation Alteration	2
gut bacteria	Agrilus planipennis No function data	Bacteria		1
Rickettsiella sp. Pseudomonadota	Acyrthosiphon pisum The absence of a single-injected isolate of Rickettsiella sp. also led to an attraction of wasps to plants fed on by ap…	Bacteria	Natural Enemy Resistance	1
Hamiltonella defensa Pseudomonadota	Acyrthosiphon pisum Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa and Rickettsiella viridis co-infection causes aphid larvae to become darker green.	Bacteria	Pigmentation Alteration	1