{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["18(1)"],"submitter":["Gunasekaran D"],"pubmed_abstract":["Insects ally with microbial symbionts for a diversity of services. The range of these interactions is wide, spanning from beneficial to pathogenic and facultative to obligate. In many cases, such insect-microbial interactions veer towards mutual dependency with integrated physiologies. This evolutionary outcome is relatively common in insects that depend on microbes to fill gaps in their nutritional ecologies (e.g. plant-sap feeding). However, the initiation and transition towards such dependent symbiotic interactions are difficult to observe in nature. Identifying these events can provide key insights into the origins and evolutionary processes that shape symbiotic interactions. Here, we report on a novel interaction between a leafhopper (Typhlocybinae: Empoasca mexicana) and a bacterium,"],"journal":["Genome biology and evolution"],"pagination":["evaf252"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC12813293"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Characterizing a Novel Symbiopectobacterium purcellii MEX Strain at the Early Stages of Establishing a Symbiotic Relationship."],"pmcid":["PMC12813293"],"pubmed_authors":["Gunasekaran D","Almeida RPP","Bennett GM","Sicard A"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Characterizing a Novel Symbiopectobacterium purcellii MEX Strain at the Early Stages of Establishing a Symbiotic Relationship.","description":"Insects ally with microbial symbionts for a diversity of services. The range of these interactions is wide, spanning from beneficial to pathogenic and facultative to obligate. In many cases, such insect-microbial interactions veer towards mutual dependency with integrated physiologies. This evolutionary outcome is relatively common in insects that depend on microbes to fill gaps in their nutritional ecologies (e.g. plant-sap feeding). However, the initiation and transition towards such dependent symbiotic interactions are difficult to observe in nature. Identifying these events can provide key insights into the origins and evolutionary processes that shape symbiotic interactions. Here, we report on a novel interaction between a leafhopper (Typhlocybinae: Empoasca mexicana) and a bacterium,","dates":{"release":"2026-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2026 Jan","modification":"2026-06-12T05:13:29.547Z","creation":"2026-06-12T03:08:10.6Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC12813293","cross_references":{"pubmed":["41512111"],"doi":["10.1093/gbe/evaf252"]}}