The effect of diet and radiation on the bacterial symbiome of the melon fly, Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett)

Abstract Symbiotic bacteria contribute to a multitude of important biological functions such as nutrition and reproduction and affect multiple physiological factors like fitness and longevity in their insect hosts. The…

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Detection and characterization of bacterial endosymbionts in Southeast Asian tephritid fruit fly populations

Abstract Various endosymbiotic bacteria, including Wolbachia of the Alphaproteobacteria, infect a wide range of insects and are capable of inducing reproductive abnormalities to their hosts such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI),…

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Irradiation effect on the structure of bacterial communities associated with the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis

Abstract The role of symbiotic microbes in insects, especially the beneficial character of this interaction for insects, has received much attention in recent years as it has been related to…

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