The perpetuation of symbioses through host generations relies on symbiont transmission.
Horizontally transmitted symbionts are taken up from the environment anew by each host …

Psyllids, whiteflies, aphids, and mealybugs are members of the suborder Sternorrhyncha
and share a common property, namely the utilization of plant sap as their food source. Each …

Current approaches for insect gene editing require microinjection of materials into early
embryos. This severely limits the application of gene editing to a great number of insect …

Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant
interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme …

Background Recent genomic analyses of arthropod defense mechanisms suggest
conservation of key elements underlying responses to pathogens, parasites and stresses. At …

Many insects are associated with obligate symbiotic bacteria, which are localized in
specialized cells called bacteriocytes, vertically transmitted through host generations via …

Here, we investigated 124 stinkbug species representing 20 families and 5 superfamilies for
their Burkholderia gut symbionts, of which 39 species representing 6 families of the …

Many animals and plants possess symbiotic microorganisms inside their body, wherein
intimate interactions occur between the partners. The Insecta, often rated as the most …

Symbiotic relationships between bacteria and insect hosts are common. Although the
bacterial endosymbionts have been subjected to intense investigation, little is known of the …

Meiosis is a key event of sexual life cycles in eukaryotes. Its mechanistic details have been
uncovered in several model organisms, and most of its essential features have received …