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A newly recorded Rickettsia of the Torix group is a recent intruder and an endosymbiont in the whitefly Bemisia tabaci.
Environmental microbiology - 1 Apr 2020
Wang Hua-Ling, Lei Teng, Wang Xiao-Wei, Maruthi M N, Zhu Dan-Tong, Cameron Stephen L, Rao Qiong, Shan Hong-Wei, Colvin John, Liu Yin-Quan, Liu Shu-Sheng
Abstract excerpt
The bacterium Rickettsia is found widely in phytophagous insects and often exerts profound effects on the phenotype and fitness of its hosts. Here, we decrypt a new, independent, phylogenetically ancient Torix Rickettsia endosymbiont found constantly in a laboratory line of an economically important insect Asia II 7, a putative species of the Bemisia tabaci whitefly complex (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), and...
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