Incidence of facultative bacterial endosymbionts in spider mites associated with local environment and host plant.

This study highlights that host-endosymbiont interactions may be associated with environmental factors, including climate and other geographically linked factors, as well as the host's food plant.IMPORTANCEThis study aims to study the incidence of endosymbiont distribution and infection patterns in spider mites. The main findings are that multiple endosymbiont infections were more common than expected, and that endosymbiont infection frequencies were associated with environmental factors. This work highlights that host-endosymbiont interactions need to be studied within an environmental and geographical context. PMID: 29330177 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Applied and Environmental Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Authors: Tags: Appl Environ Microbiol Source Type: research