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Candidatus Hamiltonella defensa

Known as: Consessoris aphidicola, Hamiltonella defensa 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2017
Highly Cited
2017
Culture of an aphid heritable symbiont demonstrates its direct role in defence against parasitoids
Heritable symbionts are common in insects with many contributing to host defence. Hamiltonella defensa is a facultative… 
Review
2017
Review
2017
Nine facultative endosymbionts in aphids. A review
2017
2017
Consequences of coinfection with protective symbionts on the host phenotype and symbiont titres in the pea aphid system
Symbiotic associations between microbes and insects are widespread, and it is frequent that several symbionts share the same host… 
Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Cheaper is not always worse: strongly protective isolates of a defensive symbiont are less costly to the aphid host
Defences against parasites are typically associated with costs to the host that contribute to the maintenance of variation in… 
Review
2014
Review
2014
Holobiont–Holobiont Interactions: Redefining Host–Parasite Interactions
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Comparing constitutive and induced costs of symbiont-conferred resistance to parasitoids in aphids
Host defenses against parasites do not come for free. The evolution of increased resistance can be constrained by constitutive… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Parasitoids as vectors of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in aphids
Heritable bacterial endosymbionts play an important role in aphid ecology. Sequence-based evidence suggests that facultative… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids
Aphids commonly harbour facultative bacterial endosymbionts and may benefit from their presence through increased resistance to… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Genotypic Variation and the Role of Defensive Endosymbionts in an All-Parthenogenetic Host-Parasitoid Interaction
Models of host-parasite coevolution predict pronounced genetic dynamics if resistance and infectivity are genotype-specific or… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Evolutionary genetics of a defensive facultative symbiont of insects: exchange of toxin‐encoding bacteriophage
The facultative endosymbiont of aphids, Hamiltonella defensa, kills parasitoid wasp larvae, allowing aphid hosts to survive and… 
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