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SUBMITTER: Shi P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5017708 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shi Peiqiong P He Zhan Z Li Shaojian S An Xuan X Lv Ning N Ghanim Murad M Cuthbertson Andrew G S AG Ren Shun-Xiang SX Qiu Bao-Li BL
PloS one 20160909 9
The whitefly Bemisia tabaci is a cosmopolitan insect species complex that harbors the obligate primary symbiont Portiera aleyrodidarum and several facultative secondary symbionts including Wolbachia, which have diverse influences on the host biology. Here, for the first time, we revealed two different localization patterns of Wolbachia present in the immature and adult stages of B. tabaci AsiaII7 cryptic species. In the confined pattern, Wolbachia was restricted to the bacteriocytes, while in th ...[more]