Defensive symbiosis in the real world – advancing ecological studies of heritable, protective bacteria in aphids and beyond

By K. Oliver, Andrew H. Smith, J. Russell. 2014

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Nine facultative endosymbionts in aphids. A review (2017, background): “It can vary according to temporal and spatial gradients, food plant associations (Oliver et al., 2014) or the presence of natural enemies (Oliver et al., 2008).”
The natural occurrence of secondary bacterial symbionts in aphids (2016, background): “…that are associated with different plant species, and secondary symbiont infection is thought to play a role in host plant specialisation as different symbiont communities were found among different host races (Tsuchida et al., 2004; McLean et al., 2011; Russell et al., 2013; Oliver et al., 2014).”
How climate change affects the seasonal ecology of insect parasitoids (2020, background): “Endosymbiont effects on insect life-history traits and species interactions are highly diverse (Oliver et al., 2014), and it is known that they become less effective when temperatures rise (Bensadia et al.”
The microbiome of pest insects: it is not just bacteria (2019, background): “These benefits have been observed in aphids (Montllor et al., 2002; Oliver et al., 2014; Frago et al., 2017), where Buchnera endosymbionts recurrently carry a mutation that governs thermal 158 Gurung et al.”