Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects
Abstract
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. Here, 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.
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- Ningbo Univ. (China); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark)
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- Research Org.:
- Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF); European Research Council Consolidator; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1764729
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0018409; FC02-07ER64494; DOB 1927155; 771349; 31500528
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Annual Review of Entomology
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 66; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0066-4170
- Publisher:
- Annual Reviews
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; Symbiosis; insect fungiculture; lignocellulose; CAZymes; evolution
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Li, Hongjie, Young, Soleil E., Poulsen, Michael, and Currie, Cameron R. Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140.
Li, Hongjie, Young, Soleil E., Poulsen, Michael, & Currie, Cameron R. Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects. United States. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140
Li, Hongjie, Young, Soleil E., Poulsen, Michael, and Currie, Cameron R. Mon .
"Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects". United States. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-040920-061140. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1764729.
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title = {Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects},
author = {Li, Hongjie and Young, Soleil E. and Poulsen, Michael and Currie, Cameron R.},
abstractNote = {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. Here, 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.},
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year = {Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
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