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Diversity and geographic distribution of secondary endosymbiotic bacteria in natural populations of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum.
Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2002
Tsuchida Tsutomu, Koga Ryuichi, Shibao Harunobu, Matsumoto Tadao, Fukatsu Takema
Abstract excerpt
In addition to the essential intracellular symbiotic bacterium Buchnera, several facultative endosymbiotic bacteria called collectively secondary symbionts (S-symbionts) have been identified from the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. We conducted an extensive and systematic survey of S-symbionts in Japanese local populations of A. pisum using a specific PCR detection technique. Five S-symbionts of A. pisum, PASS,...
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