Raphaella Jackson
Queen Mary University of London
9 Papers
4 Citations
Raphaella Jackson is an academic researcher from Queen Mary University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Buchnera. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Parallel Evolution in the Integration of a Co-obligate Aphid Symbiosis.
TL;DR: The results suggest the energetic costs of synthesizing nutrients may provide a unified explanation for the sequence of gene losses that occur during the evolution of co-obligate symbiosis.
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Symbioses shape feeding niches and diversification across insects
Charlie K. Cornwallis,Anouk van ’t Padje,Jacintha Ellers,Malin Klein,Raphaella Jackson,E. Toby Kiers,Stuart A. West,Lee M. Henry +7 more
TL;DR: For over 300 million years, insects have relied on symbiotic microbes for nutrition and defence as discussed by the authors , but it is unclear whether specific ecological conditions have repeatedly favored the evolution of symbioses, and how this has influenced insect diversification.
Parallel evolution in the integration of a co-obligate aphid symbiosis
TL;DR: The results suggest the energetic costs of synthesising nutrients may provide a unified explanation for the sequence of gene loses that occur during the evolution of co-obligate symbiosis.
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Evidence of phylosymbiosis in Formica ants
Raphaella Jackson,Patapios A Patapiou,Gemma Golding,Heikki Helanterä,Chloe K. Economou,Michel Chapuisat,Lee M. Henry +6 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the microbial communities associated with queens of 14 Formica species from five clades, using deep coverage 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, and revealed that Formica organisms and clades harbor highly defined microbial communities that are dominated by four bacteria genera: Wolbachia, Lactobacillus, Liliensternia, and Spiroplasma.
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Evolution: The Legacy of Endosymbiosis in Ants.
TL;DR: A symbiotic partnership with Blochmannia bacteria is thought to underpin the ecological success of carpenter ants and disentangling the molecular interactions between the mutualistic partners supports an old hypothesis that many other ants also had similar symbioses and lost them.
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