Bacterial Symbionts in Ceratitis capitata [PDF]
Insects, 2022 Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) is responsible for extensive damage in agriculture with important economic losses. Several strategies have been proposed to control this insect pest including insecticides and the Sterile Insect Technique ...
Alessia Cappelli +6 more
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Locust Bacterial Symbionts: An Update [PDF]
Insects, 2020 As one of the world’s most infamous agricultural pests, locusts have been subjected to many in-depth studies. Their ability at one end of their behavioral spectrum to live as solitary individuals under specific conditions, and at the other end of the ...
Omer Lavy +3 more
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Spiroplasma as facultative bacterial symbionts of stinkbugs. [PDF]
Front Microbiol, 2022 Many insects are associated with facultative symbiotic bacteria, and their infection prevalence provides an important clue to understand the biological impact of such microbial associates. Here we surveyed diverse stinkbugs representing 13 families, 69 genera, 97 species and 468 individuals for Spiroplasma infection.
Kakizawa S +4 more
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Roles of Bacterial Symbionts in Transmission of Plant Virus by Hemipteran Vectors [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The majority of plant viruses are transmitted by hemipteran insects. Bacterial symbionts in hemipteran hosts have a significant impact on the host life, physiology and ecology.
Wei Wu +5 more
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Bacterial Symbionts Confer Thermal Tolerance to Cereal Aphids Rhopalosiphum padi and Sitobion avenae [PDF]
Insects, 2022 High-temperature events are evidenced to exert significant influence on the population performance and thermal biology of insects, such as aphids. However, it is not yet clear whether the bacterial symbionts of insects mediate the thermal tolerance ...
Muhammad Zeeshan Majeed +4 more
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Quantitative microbial population study reveals geographical differences in bacterial symbionts of Ixodes ricinus [PDF]
Microbiome, 2022 Background Ixodes ricinus ticks vector pathogens that cause serious health concerns. Like in other arthropods, the microbiome may affect the tick’s biology, with consequences for pathogen transmission.
Aleksandra I. Krawczyk +6 more
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No Evidence of Bacterial Symbionts Influencing Host Specificity in Aphis gossypii Glover (Hemiptera: Aphididae) [PDF]
Insects, 2022 The cotton-melon aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, is a polyphagous insect pest with many host-specialized biotypes, such as the Cucurbitaceae- and Malvaceae-specialized (CU and MA) biotypes.
Hao Guo +5 more
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Ploidy dynamics in aphid host cells harboring bacterial symbionts. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 AbstractAphids have evolved bacteriocytes or symbiotic host cells that harbor the obligate mutualistic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola. Because of the large cell size (approximately 100 μm in diameter) of bacteriocytes and their pivotal role in nutritional symbiosis, researchers have considered that these cells are highly polyploid and assumed that ...
Nozaki T, Shigenobu S.
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Horizontal transfer of the rfb cluster in Leptospira is a genetic determinant of serovar identity
Life Science Alliance, 2023 Leptospira strains show very large antigenic variation (serovars). Here, the rfb gene cluster is shown to be transferred horizontally within/among Leptospira species, discriminating serovar identity. Leptospira bacteria comprise numerous species, several
Cecilia Nieves +5 more
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Phenotypic, Molecular and Symbiotic Characterization of the Rhizobial Symbionts of Desmanthus paspalaceus (Lindm.) Burkart That Grow in the Province of Santa Fe, Argentina [PDF]
, 2014 Desmanthus paspalaceus (Lindm.) Burkart belongs to the D. virgatus complex, subfamily Mimosoidae. The known potential as livestock fodder of several of these legumes prompted us to undertake a phenotypic, molecular, and symbiotic characterization of the ...
Albicoro, Francisco Javier +7 more
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