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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yao Xu, Eileen A Buss, Drion G Boucias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4993365?pdf=render