supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2022YFD1401200);Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province of China(tstp20221135);the National Nature Science Foun-dation of China(31872030 and 31572064).
Inherited bacterial symbionts are very common in arthropods, but infection frequency can vary widely among populations. Experiments and interpopulation comparisons suggest that host genetic background might be importa...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872030);the Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province of China,the First Class Grassland Science Discipline Program of Shandong Province,China,and the Qingdao Agricultural University High-level Talent Fund(663-1121025).
Communities of bacteria,especially symbionts,are vital for the growth and development of insects and other arthropods,including Bemisia tabaci Mediterranean(MED),a destructive and invasive insect pest.However,the infe...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31872030,31572064);the Taishan Scholar Foundation of Shandong Province(tsqn20161040);the First-class Grassland Science Discipline Program in Shandong Province,China.
Field monitoring revealed that the infection ratio of the bacterial symbiont Cardinium in the whitefly(Bemisia tabaci MED)was relatively low in northern China.However,the role of this symbiont and the symbiont-whitefl...
The authors thank Kerry M.Oliver and David Plotkin for critical reviews of this manuscript,and we thank Pei-Qiong Shi for culture of whitefly lines.This work was supported by the NSFC-Guangdong Joint Research Fund(U1701231);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672028);Key-Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province(2018B020205003)to BLQ.The funders had no role in the study design,data collection and interpretation,or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Cardinium and Wolbachia are maternally inherited bacterial symbionts of arthropods that can manipulate host reproduction by increasing the fitness of infected females.Here,we report that Cardinium and Wolbachia coinfe...