Plants have inherent capabilities to modulate their resistance against both biotic and abiotic
stresses. Plant–microorganism interactions in the rhizosphere play vital role in such …

There is increasing interest in exploring how endosymbionts could be useful in pest control,
including in aphids, which can carry a diversity of endosymbionts. Endosymbionts often …

In the recent years, the holobiont concept has emerged as a theoretical and experimental
framework to study the interactions between hosts and their associated microbial …

Genetic diversity of closely related free-living microorganisms is widespread and underpins
ecosystem functioning, but most evolutionary theories predict that it destabilizes intimate …

Most insects harbour influential, yet non‐essential heritable microbes in their hemocoel.
Communities of these symbionts exhibit low diversity. But their frequent multi‐species nature …

Symbioses are significant drivers of insect evolutionary ecology. Despite recent findings that
these associations can emerge from environmentally derived bacterial precursors, there is …

Although asexual lineages evolved from sexual lineages in many different taxa, the genetics
of sex loss remains poorly understood. We addressed this issue in the pea aphid …

Insect host–parasitoid interactions abound in nature and are characterized by a high degree
of host specialization. In addition to their behavioral and immune defenses, many host …

Eukaryotes are habitats for bacterial organisms where the host colonization and dispersal
among individual hosts have consequences for the bacterial ecology and evolution. Vertical …

The aphid Myzus persicae is a destructive agricultural pest that displays an exceptional
ability to develop resistance to both natural and synthetic insecticides. To investigate the …