Vilas Patel

Parasitoid gene expression changes after adaptation to symbiont-protected hosts

Alice B. Dennis, Vilas Patel, Kerry M. Oliver et al. · Evolution · 2017 · 89 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Evolutionary Biology +17

An aphid symbiont confers protection against a specialized <scp>RNA</scp> virus, another increases vulnerability to the same pathogen

Clesson H. V. Higashi, William L. Nichols, Germain Chevignon et al. · Molecular Ecology · 2022 · 31 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Botany, Entomology +16

Evolutionary genomics of APSE: a tailed phage that lysogenically converts the bacterium Hamiltonella defensa into a heritable protective symbiont of aphids

Bret M. Boyd, Germain Chevignon, Vilas Patel et al. · Virology Journal · 2021 · 23 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +17

Using axenic and gnotobiotic insects to examine the role of different microbes on the development and reproduction of the kissing bug <i>Rhodnius prolixus</i> (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)

Carissa A. Gilliland, Vilas Patel, Ashley C. McCormick et al. · Molecular Ecology · 2022 · 18 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Entomology, Zoology +11

Mobile elements create strain‐level variation in the services conferred by an aphid symbiont

Vilas Patel, Nicole Lynn‐bell, Germain Chevignon et al. · Environmental Microbiology · 2023 · 15 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +16