The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function.

By Philipp Engel, N. Moran. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2013

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Subfields: Genetics, Insect Science

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In Genetics

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3. A. van Huis
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In Insect Science

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6. H. Jordan
7. Paul Becher
8. C. Nalepa

Citations in the corpus

• Current knowledge of interactions between Drosophila suzukii and microbes, and their potential utility for pest management (2016, background): “2008) exploiting in particular the insect gut as a habitat (Engel and Moran 2013).”
• Effect of post-harvest starvation and rinsing on the microbial numbers and the bacterial community composition of mealworm larvae (Tenebrio molitor) (2017, background): “…and rinsing after harvest, are suggested to affect the microbiota of insects (Dillon, Webster, Weightman, & Charnley, 2010; Klunder et al., 2012; Engel & Moran, 2013; SHC & FASFC, 2014; EFSA Scientific Committee, 2015; Li, Xie, Dong, Wang, & Liu, 2016), but no specific information exists.”
• Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments (2015, background): “Although termites have the best studied of the insect gut mutualisms (Engel & Moran, 2013), the loss of the large, cellulolytic gut protists during the molting cycle in lower termites continues to be misunderstood (e.g. Troyer, 1984; Thorne, 1997; Korb, 2009).”
• Standardisation of quantitative resource conversion studies with black soldier fly larvae (2020, background): “…microbes rapidly adapt to changes in the insect diet through changes in population and the sensing of signalling compounds and degradation enzymes that facilitate digestion through absorption and metabolism of complex molecules (Dillon and Dillon, 2004; Engel and Moran, 2013a,b; Yun et al. , 2014).”
• Insect Gut Bacterial Diversity Determined by Environmental Habitat, Diet, Developmental Stage, and Phylogeny of Host (2014, background): “The insect gut as a bacterial habitat shows different morphologies, generally depending on the insect order (45); furthermore, the gut morphology is sharply changed by metamorphosis, according to the life cycle of the insect (46).”
• Seasonal shifts in the insect gut microbiome are concurrent with changes in cold tolerance and immunity (2018, background): “The insect gut microbiome includes bacteria, archaea, yeasts and protozoa that 47 may colonise the mucosa of the gut or exist transiently in the food as it passes through the 48 digestive tract (Douglas 2015; Engel & Moran 2013).”
• The microbiome of pest insects: it is not just bacteria (2019, background): “…tend to be dependent on the insect hosts for obtaining nutrients, whereas they can provide fitness advantages in terms of nutritional provisioning, overcoming host defenses, and protection from pathogens, parasites, or other environmental stressors (Engel & Moran, 2013; Mereghetti et al., 2017).”