Article
Local adaptation to hosts and parasitoids shape Hamiltonella defensa genotypes across aphid species.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 26 Oct 2022
Wu Taoping, Monnin David, Lee Rene A R, Henry Lee M
Abstract excerpt
Facultative symbionts are common in insects and can provide their hosts with significant adaptations. Yet we still have a limited understanding of what shapes their distributions, such as why particular symbiont strains are common in some host species yet absent in others. To address this question, we genotyped the defensive symbiont Hamiltonella defensa in 26 aphid species that commonly carry this microbe. We...
Topics
- Animals
- Aphids
- Wasps
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Symbiosis
- Genotype