Growing Ungrowable Bacteria: Overview and Perspectives on Insect Symbiont Culturability

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Growing Ungrowable Bacteria: Overview and Perspectives on Insect Symbiont Culturability

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Metabolism of the symbiotic jellyfish Cassiopea in a changing environment

Contrasting Microbiome Dynamics of Putative Denitrifying Bacteria in Two Octocoral Species Exposed to Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and Warming

Intrinsically High Capacity of Animal Cells From a Symbiotic Cnidarian to Deal With Pro-Oxidative Conditions

Benthic Biofilms in Glacier-Fed Streams from Scandinavia to the Himalayas Host Distinct Bacterial Communities Compared with the Streamwater

The role of immune effectors in controlling Drosophila-microbes interactions

Heat stress reduces the contribution of diazotrophs to coral holobiont nitrogen cycling

Transformation of the Drosophila Sex-Manipulative Endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii and Persisting Hurdles for Functional Genetic Studies

Intracellular competition for nitrogen controls dinoflagellate population density in corals

Tracking the cargo of extracellular symbionts into host tissues with correlated electron microscopy and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry imaging

Insights into flagellar function and mechanism from the squid-vibrio symbiosis

Weevil pgrp-lb prevents endosymbiont TCT dissemination and chronic host systemic immune activation

Commensal Gut Bacteria Buffer the Impact of Host Genetic Variants on Drosophila Developmental Traits under Nutritional Stress

Functional analysis of RIP toxins from the Drosophila endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii

In Vitro Culture of the Insect Endosymbiont Spiroplasma poulsonii Highlights Bacterial Genes Involved in Host-Symbiont Interaction

The double-edged toxins : how Spiroplasma Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins affect Drosophila melanogaster life history traits

Visualizing chemical transport from extracellular symbionts into squid host tissues using NanoSIMS

Interbacterial predation as a strategy for DNA acquisition in naturally competent bacteria

Transcriptomic characterization of the enzymatic antioxidants FeSOD, MnSOD, APX and KatG in the dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium

MALDI-MS and NanoSIMS imaging techniques to study cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses

Differential coral bleaching—Contrasting the activity and response of enzymatic antioxidants in symbiotic partners under thermal stress