... symbioses for the hosts’ defence against natural enemies remain largely unstudied. Here, we investigated whether the cuticle-enhancing nutritional symbiosis of the saw-toothed grain beetle Oryzaephilus surinamensis confers protection against predation and fungal infection. We exposed age-defined symbiotic...

... interactions. In this Review, we will summarize recent findings that have advanced our understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying the symbiosis between insects and their gut microbiota. We will open the article with a general introduction to the insect gut microbiota and then turn towards...

... processes, provides a window into how mutualistic interactions shape host biochemistry. The Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes , is amenable to metabolomic studies of symbiosis because the host can be reared with or without its species-specific symbiont, Vibrio fischeri . In addition, unlike many...

... symbiotic states: hosting Breviolum muscatinei (brown), hosting Elliptochloris marina (green) or without algal symbionts (aposymbiotic). This provides a basis for A. elegantissima to be a model for detailed studies of the role of CA in DIC transport. This study investigated the effects of symbiosis, body...

... Facultative endosymbiont Insect physiology Symbiosis Infection with facultative (non-essential) endosymbiotic bacteria is widespread within herbivorous arthropod populations, including aphids ( Luna et al., 2018 ), whiteflies ( Ghosh et al., 2018 ), psyllids ( Hansen et al., 2012 ), mites ( Zhu et...

... that chemical cues relevant to reproductive behaviour in a songbird, the dark-eyed junco, are produced by bacteria associated with uropygial gland secretions. Microbiome Symbiosis Animal communication Chemical signalling Fermentation hypothesis Avian Animals are inhabited by microbial...

.... Tridacna Symbiodinium Vacuolar proton ATPase Carbon-concentrating mechanism Metabolism Symbiosis Photosymbiosis, a partnership in which a host organism harbors photosynthetic microbial or algal cells, provides competitive advantages to hosts through increased energy availability...

... in Symbiodinium clade D may reduce cnidarian bleaching susceptibility not by resisting temperature stress, but by resisting expulsion. Symbiodinium Montastraea cavernosa Coral bleaching Symbiosis Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of temperature stress on coral reefs...

... attributed. Summary:   Lactobacillus plantarum WJL is beneficial to Drosophila physiology across its entire life cycle, triggering the early emergence and longer survival of fit and fertile adults. Microbiota Symbiosis Fertility Fitness Lifespan In nature, animals are constantly...

... 2015 Summary: Recent nucleic acid sequencing data provide compelling evidence that animals live in a microbial world and that microbes have shaped animal biology, including their biochemistry and physiology, over evolutionary time. Microbial biosphere Symbiosis Woese From...

... , in symbiosis with Symbiodinium clades A, and C,D respectively. We showed a rapid acquisition, exchange and a long-term retention of heterotrophic nutrients within the symbiosis, whereas autotrophic nutrients were rapidly used to meet immediate metabolic needs. In addition, there was a higher retention...

... 2014 22 9 2014 © 2014. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2014 Scleractinia Diazotrophy Stable isotopes Symbiosis Coral reef waters are oligotrophic with respect to nitrogen (D'Elia and Wiebe, 1990), thus N 2 fixation by free-living benthic or pelagic cyanobacteria...

... metabolism, protease activity was significantly higher in Attamyces than in Trachymyces, regardless of the ant host. Activity of some enzymes employed by this symbiosis therefore arises from complex interactions between the ant host and the fungal symbiont. One of the more surprising findings of this study...

.... , Daugherty   S. C. , Van Aken   S. E. , Pai   G. H. , Watkins   K. L. , Khouri   H. , Tallon   L. J. , Zaborsky   J. M. , Dunbar   H. E. , Tran   P. L. , et al . ( 2006 ). Metabolic complementarity and genomics of the dual bacterial symbiosis of sharpshooters . PLoS Biol.   4...

... symbiosis, including those governing the specificity of symbiont uptake by the host, remain poorly understood, in part because of the difficulties of working with corals in the laboratory. Here, we used the small symbiotic sea anemone Aiptasia as an experimentally tractable model system to analyze...

...) in bacteriocytes is essential for symbiosis. * Author for correspondence ( tyoshida@jamstec.go.jp ) AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS Y.H. and T.Y. conceived and designed the experiments. Y.H. performed all experiments; Y.H., T.M. and T.Y. analyzed all data; Y.N. and M.N. contributed to the monoclonal antibody...

...Camille W. Paxton; Simon K. Davy; Virginia M. Weis SUMMARY Coral bleaching occurs when there is a breakdown of the symbiosis between cnidarian hosts and resident Symbiodinium spp. Multiple mechanisms for the bleaching process have been identified, including apoptosis and autophagy, and most...

... symbiosis temperature Scleractinian corals owe their success in nutrient-poor tropical waters to their association with photosynthetic dinoflagellate symbionts of the genus Symbiodinium . These symbionts, located in the coral host tissue, can take up and retain dissolved inorganic nutrients...

.... executed the study. J.L., S.T., E.T., D.A. and A.V. interpreted the data. J.L., S.T. and A.V. drafted and revised the manuscript. COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 25 10 2012 12 12 2012 © 2013. 2013 acid–base balance symbiosis Stylophora pistillata...

.... * Author for correspondence ( erin.r.graham@temple.edu ) 25 6 2012 10 9 2012 © 2013. 2013 Oophila amblystomatis Ambystoma maculatum algae salamander carbon translocation symbiosis Over 120 years ago, it was discovered that a mutualistic, flagellated green alga...