We thank Professor Myron Zalucki,The University of Queensland,Australia for editing the final version of the manuscript prior to submission.This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Project no.31772173).
Rickettsia consists of some of the most prevalent symbionts of insects and often plays a significant role in the biology of its hosts.Recently,a maternally inherited Torix group Rickettsia,provisionally named as RiTBt...
Financial support for this study was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project number: 31390421 and 31321063).
The whitefly, Bemisia tabaci, harbors the primary symbiont 'Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum' and a variety of secondary symbionts. Among these secondary symbionts, Rickettsia is the only one that can be detected b...
Endosymbionts are important components of arthropod biology. The white- fly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a cryptic species complex composed of 〉28 putative species. In addition to the p...
This research was supported by Research Grant No. IS- 4062-07 from the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) to MG, and supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation Research Grant No. 884/07 to MG. This is contribution 507/10 from the ARO, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Is- rael. We thank two anonymous reviewers who gave valuable comments for improving the manuscript.
The whitefly Bemisia tabaci harbors Portiera aleyrodidarum, an obligatory symbiotic bacterium, as well as several secondary symbionts, including Rickettsia, Hamiltonella, Wolbachia, Arsenophonus, Cardinium and Fritsch...