Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects
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Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects. / Li, Hongjie; Young, Soleil E.; Poulsen, Michael; Currie, Cameron R.
I: Annual Review of Entomology, Bind 66, 2021, s. 297-316.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Review › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects
AU - Li, Hongjie
AU - Young, Soleil E.
AU - Poulsen, Michael
AU - Currie, Cameron R.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play in plant-feeding insects. Some ants, beetles, and termites, among others, have evolved the ability to use microbes to gain indirect access to plant substrate through the farming of a fungus on which they feed. Recent genomic studies, including studies of insect hosts and fungal and bacterial symbionts, as well as metagenomics and proteomics, have provided important insights into plant biomass digestion across insect-fungal mutualisms. Not only do advances in understanding of the divergent and complementary functions of complex symbionts reveal the mechanism of how these herbivorous insects catabolize plant biomass, but these symbionts also represent a promising reservoir for novel carbohydrate-active enzyme discovery, which is of considerable biotechnological interest.
AB - Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play in plant-feeding insects. Some ants, beetles, and termites, among others, have evolved the ability to use microbes to gain indirect access to plant substrate through the farming of a fungus on which they feed. Recent genomic studies, including studies of insect hosts and fungal and bacterial symbionts, as well as metagenomics and proteomics, have provided important insights into plant biomass digestion across insect-fungal mutualisms. Not only do advances in understanding of the divergent and complementary functions of complex symbionts reveal the mechanism of how these herbivorous insects catabolize plant biomass, but these symbionts also represent a promising reservoir for novel carbohydrate-active enzyme discovery, which is of considerable biotechnological interest.
KW - CAZymes
KW - evolution
KW - insect fungiculture
KW - lignocellulose
KW - symbiosis
U2 - 10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140
DO - 10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140
M3 - Review
C2 - 32926791
AN - SCOPUS:85099248951
VL - 66
SP - 297
EP - 316
JO - Annual Review of Entomology
JF - Annual Review of Entomology
SN - 0066-4170
ER -
ID: 255727053