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Insect “Symbiology” Is Coming of Age, Bridging Between Bench and Field

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Insects are major contributors to natural as well as to man-managed ecosystems and largely bear on human affairs, both positively and negatively. They have varied microbial communities that provide them with nutritional benefits, enhanced defenses, and improved stress resistance. This review centers on nutritional contributions of gut symbionts to their insect hosts. It explores the complex relationships between symbiont, host nutrition, and host life cycle, summarizing some of the important developments in symbiotic science. It particularly focuses on Tephritidae fruit flies that cause enormous agricultural damage. It exposes the present knowledge on the symbionts of the tephritids Ceratitis capitata (the Mediterranean fruit fly) and Bactrocera oleae (the Olive fly) and recapitulates recent advances in the improvement of the performance of mass-reared sterile males used in sterile insect technique to combat the medfly.

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Jurkevitch, E. (2012). Insect “Symbiology” Is Coming of Age, Bridging Between Bench and Field. In: Rosenberg, E., Gophna, U. (eds) Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21680-0_2

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