Health depends on the diet and a vegetal diet promotes health by providing fibres, vitamins
and diverse metabolites. Remarkably, plants may also provide microbes. Fungi and bacteria …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …