Gut microbiota in nymph and adults of the giant mesquite bug (Thasus neocalifornicus) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) is dominated by burkholderia acquired de novo every generation

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1102-1110

  Olivier Espejel, Sarai ^a   Sabree, Zakee L ^a,b,c   Noge, Koji ^a,d   Becerra, Judith X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AKITA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Burkholderia; Coreidae; crypts; gut symbiont; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; BACTERIUM; CRYPSIS; DOMINANCE; EGG; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; INSECT; LEGUME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HETEROPTERA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BURKHOLDERIA; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HETEROPTERA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; NYMPH; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYMBIOSIS;

UNITED STATES;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BURKHOLDERIA; COREIDAE; FABACEAE; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; PROSOPIS; RIMADARMISTUS DEPRECATOR; THASUS NEOCALIFORNICUS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 80054103908     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN10309     Document Type: Article

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