Environmental Transmission of the Gut Symbiont Burkholderia to Phloem-Feeding Blissus insularis

The plant-phloem-feeding Blissus insularis possesses specialized midgut crypts, which harbor a dense population of the exocellular bacterial symbiont Burkholderia. Most individual B. insularis harbor a single Burkholderia ribotype in their midgut crypts; however, a diverse Burkholderia community exi...

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Main Authors: Xu, Yao, Buss, Eileen A., Boucias, Drion G.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993365/