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Infections patterns and fitness effects of <i>Rickettsia</i> and <i>Sodalis</i> symbionts in the green lacewing <i>Chrysoperla carnea</i>
2018-05-21
Abstract excerpt
Endosymbionts are wide-spread among insects and can play an essential role in host ecology. The common green lacewing ( Chrysoperla carnea s. str.) is a neuropteran insect species which is widely used as a biological pest control. We screened for endosymbionts in natural and laboratory populations of the green lacewing using diagnostic PCR amplicons. We found the endosymbiont Rickettsia to be very common in all...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8e4d4b52-ba09-52ba-8dbb-3269c84a1784
- DOI
- 10.1101/327130
