Effect of Cardinium Infection on the Probing Behavior of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) MED
| Autor: | Chu Dong, Ding Tianbo, Li HongRan, Tao YunLi, Liu Ying, Liu Baiming |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
AcademicSubjects/SCI01382 Population Whitefly 01 natural sciences eletropenetrography Hemiptera 03 medical and health sciences Sphingobacteriales Genotype whitefly Animals education Symbiosis Malvaceae Research Articles 030304 developmental biology Genetics 0303 health sciences Facultative education.field_of_study Behavior biology Bacteria Host Microbial Interactions insect behavior Host (biology) fungi General Medicine Bacterial Infections biology.organism_classification 010602 entomology Insect Science phloem sap ingestion endosymbiont |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Insect Science |
| ISSN: | 1536-2442 |
| Popis: | Facultative endosymbionts can affect the growth, physiology, and behavior of their arthropod hosts. There are several endosymbionts in the invasive whitefly Bemisia tabaci Mediterranean (MED, Q biotype) that influence host fitness by altering stylet probing behavior. We investigated the probing behavior of B. tabaci MED infected with the facultative endosymbiont Candidatus Cardinium hertigii (Cardinium (Sphingobacteriales: Flexibacteraceae)). We generated genetically similar Cardinium-infected (C*+) and uninfected (C-) clonal sublines and analyzed the probing behavior of newly emerged adult on cotton (Malvales: Malvaceae), Gossypium hirsutum L., using electropenetrography (EPG). The C- subline demonstrated a longer duration of E2 (2.81-fold) and more events of E2 (2.22-fold) than the C*+ subline, indicating a greater level of sustained ingestion of plant phloem. These findings provide insight into the fitness costs (fitness of a particular genotype is lower than the average fitness of the population) of the Cardinium-infected B. tabaci. |
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