Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites
and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play …

New technologies that enhance soil biodiversity and minimize the use of scarce resources
while boosting crop production are highly sought to mitigate the increasing threats that …

Interactions between bacterial microbiota and mosquitoes play an important role in
mosquitoes' capacity to transmit pathogens. However, microbiota assemblages within …

Termites have long been studied for their symbiotic associations with gut microbes. In the
late nineteenth century, this relationship was poorly understood and captured the interest of …

This review covers more than twenty-five years of research listing and discussing the
biogeochemical, mineralogical, and physical impacts of fungus-growing termites (or FGT …

Termites are among the most successful animal groups, accomplishing nutrient acquisition
through long-term associations and enzyme provisioning from microbial symbionts. Fungus …

Although comprising~ 80% of the Earth's air, nitrogen (N), in a usable form, is a limited
resource for herbivorous insects. Additionally, much of the consumed dietary N is lost …

The bacterial and fungal community involved in ambrosia beetle fungiculture remains poorly
studied compared to the famous fungus-farming ants and termites. Here we studied …

Termites forage on a range of substrates, and it has been suggested that diet shapes the
composition and function of termite gut bacterial communities. Through comparative …

Fungus-growing termites are efficient in degrading and digesting plant substrates, achieved
through the engagement of symbiotic gut microbiota and lignocellulolytic Termitomyces …