The microbial dimension in insect nutritional ecology

By A. E. Douglas. 2009

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OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes (2009, background): “Microbial symbioses also are seen among marsupial herbivores and termites in these two regions (Kinnear et al. 1979; Kinnear and Main 1979; Douglas 2009).”
Essential Biomolecules in Food Webs (2019, background): “Finally, symbiotic fungi in the gut may provide a substantial part of sterols to their insect host (reviewed by Douglas, 2009).”
Bacterially enriched diet improves sexual performance of sterile male Mediterranean fruit flies (2011, background): “These may include essential amino acids, essential vitamins, nitrogen, and carbon compounds (reviewed by Douglas 1998, 2009).”
Host Biology in Light of the Microbiome: Ten Principles of Holobionts and Hologenomes (2015, background): “For example, the propensity for symbiosis to drive molecular complexity is now a foundational premise [123], such as in obligate symbionts (with their own generation times) supplementing the missing nutrients in the inadequate diets of thousands of holobiont species spanning cicadas, bedbugs, and ap”
Nutritional ecology of marine herbivorous fishes: ten years on (2009, background): “…collectively reinforce the view that symbiotic fermentation can be important in animals that have relatively fast gut throughput times, do not maintain constant elevated body temperatures, and lack highly specialized alimentary structures, as is the case in insects for example (Douglas, 2009).”
The scarab gut: A potential bioreactor for bio‐fuel production (2010, background): “…thought to occur in the enlarged hindgut paunch with the assistance of micro-organisms (Bayon, 1980; C© 2010 The Authors Journal compilation C© Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Insect Science, 17, 175–183 Martin, 1983; Cazemier et al., 2003; Zhang & Jackson, 2008; Douglas, 2009).”
Soil acidity, ecological stoichiometry and allometric scaling in grassland food webs (2009, background): “…larger-bodied soil herbivores are further known for a certain combination of intrinsic and microbial sources of cellulolysis in their diet (e.g., Douglas, 2009, p. 42), and most growth and reproduction rates have been observed to decline as a function of body mass (Hendriks & Mulder, 2008;…”
Bacterial symbionts as mediators of ecologically important traits of insect hosts (2011, background): “Especially phloem- or xylem-feeding insects and cellulose-digesting insects such as termites can survive exclusively on strongly imbalanced food sources by microorganisms synthesising essential nutrients (Baumann, 2005; Douglas, 2009).”
Multiorganismal Insects: Diversity and Function of Resident Microorganisms (2014, background): “, Blattodea, Phthiraptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera) and present in a few species of Hymenoptera and Diptera, but they are absent from most other insects (35, 37).”
Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens. (2009, background): “Assimilation can be affected by food composition, gut symbionts (Douglas 2009), etc.”