A Michalik, E Bauer, T Szklarzewicz… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Hemipterans are known as hosts to bacterial or fungal symbionts that supplement their unbalanced diet with essential nutrients. Among them, scale insects (Coccomorpha) are …
Yeast–insect interactions are increasingly becoming an attractive source of discovery for previously unknown, unique, diverse, and industrially relevant yeast species. Despite a …
D Liu, M Niu, Y Lu, J Wei, H Zhang - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Scale insects (Coccoidea) are morphologically specialized members of the order Hemiptera, with 56 families recognized to date. However, the phylogenetic relationships within and …
The scale insect Dactylopius coccus produces high amounts of carminic acid, which has historically been used as a pigment by pre-Hispanic American cultures. Nowadays carmine …
T Szklarzewicz, M Kalandyk‐Kołodziejczyk… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ovary structure and the organization of its symbiotic system of the ground mealybug, Rhizoecus albidus (Rhizoecidae), were examined by means of microscopic and molecular …
Insects possess an effective immune system, which has been extensively characterized in several model species, revealing a plethora of conserved genes involved in recognition …
Background Scale insects are worldwide sap-sucking parasites, which can be distinguished into neococcoids and non-neococcoids. Neococcoids are monophyletic with a peculiar …
ZY Fu, JQ An, W Liu, HP Zhang, P Yang - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Chinese white wax scale, Ericerus pela, is an insect native to China. It harbors a variety of microbes. The Paraconiothyrium fungus was isolated from E. pela and genome …
E Sanaei, YP Lin, LG Cook… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Wolbachia is one of the most successful endosymbiotic bacteria of arthropods. Known as the 'master of manipulation', Wolbachia can induce a wide range of phenotypes in its host that …