Insect-microbe mutualism without vertical transmission: A stinkbug acquires a beneficial gut symbiont from the environment every generation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4308-4316

  Kikuchi, Yoshitomo ^a,b   Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURE STRAIN; INSECT HABITAT; PHYLOGENY;

CELL CULTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INSECT; MUTUALISM; REARING; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BURKHOLDERIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; EGG; ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT; HETEROPTERA; HOST; INFECTION; INSECT; MICROORGANISM; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; RIPTORTUS CLAVATUS; SOIL; SOYBEAN; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKHOLDERIA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; HETEROPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOYBEANS; SYMBIOSIS;

ALNUS; ALYDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; FRANKIA; GLYCINE MAX; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; RHIZOBIUM; RIPTORTUS CLAVATUS;

EID: 34447506678     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00067-07     Document Type: Article

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