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Symbiont Species	Strain Records	Classification	Function Tags	Total Records
Wigglesworthia glossinidia Pseudomonadota	Glossina morsitans Wigglesworthia glossinidia provides symbiont-derived factors, likely B vitamins, which are critical for the proper func… Glossina morsitans Wigglesworthia glossinidia synthesizes a large number of B vitamins to supplement the host's nutritional deficiencies. Glossina fuscipes fuscipes Wigglesworthia glossinidia influences host vector competence. Glossina morsitans Wigglesworthia glossinidia can synthesize thiamine. Glossina brevipalpis Wigglesworthia glossinidia brevipalpis provides its tsetse host with metabolites, such as vitamins.	Bacteria	B Vitamin Supplementation Chemical Biosynthesis Other Vitamin Supplementation	5
Wigglesworthia Pseudomonadota	Glossina Wigglesworthia provisions folate (vitamin $\text{B}_9$) which pathogenic African trypanosomes exploit to successfully e… Glossina morsitans morsitans Wigglesworthia up-regulates the expression of odorant binding protein six in the gut of intrauterine tsetse larvae. Glossina morsitans Wigglesworthia up-regulates the expression of odorant binding protein six in the gut of intrauterine tsetse larvae, whi…	Bacteria	B Vitamin Supplementation Other	3
Klebsiella Pseudomonadota	Glossina sp. No function data	Bacteria		1
Rickettsia Pseudomonadota	Glossina sp. No function data	Bacteria		1
Spiroplasma Mycoplasmatota	Glossina sp. High Spiroplasma density may play a role in larval fitness.	Bacteria	Stress Resistance	1