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Using DNA identification and metabarcoding methods, the microbiome of Phytoseiidae mites has been characterized, and symbiotic and pathogenic species of microorganisms facultatively and obligately associated with Phytoseiidae mites have been identified. The microbiome of mites consists of intestinal bacteria and fungi, intracellular bacteria and microsporidia are most common in Phytoseiidae mites. As with other groups of arthropods, infection of Phytoseiidae mites with the intracellular symbiotic bacteria Wolbachia and Cardinium causes a shift in the sex ratio in favor of females in the population and cytoplasmic incompatibility between infected and uninfected mite populations of the same species. The use of intracellular symbiotic bacteria opens the possibility of obtaining biocontrol populations consisting exclusively of females that are not able to interbreed with wild representatives of their own species, which is essential to avoid the spread of pathogenic bacteria. In biocontrol populations of Phytoseiidae mites, using DNA diagnostics, pathogenic bacteria and Microsporidia have been identified, the elimination of which can increase the viability and efficiency of the use of Phytoseiidae mites in agricultural practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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