Transmission of a Protease-Secreting Bacterial Symbiont Among Pea Aphids via Host Plants

This study was financially supported by the Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (HMWK) via the LOEWE Research Center “Insect Biotechnology and Bioresources.” Conflict of Interest Statement The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge Jens Grotmann, Phillipp Kirfel, Tobias Kessel, Maximilian Seip and Katja Michaelis from Fraunhofer IME (Giessen, Germany), and Sebastian Beer from University of Applied Sciences Mittelhessen, Institute of Bioprocess Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology (Giessen, Germany) for their valuable help in this study. We thank Dr. Richard M. Twyman for editing the manuscript. Supplementary Material The Supplementary Material for this article can be found online at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2019.00438/full#supplementary-material Footnotes ^ http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi ^ http://bacteria.ensembl.org/index.html ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ^ http://primer3.ut.ee/ ^ http://eu.idtdna.com/PrimerQuest ^ https://www.uniprot.org ^ https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/ ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov References Ahmed, M. Z., De Barro, P. J., Ren, S. X., Greeff, J. M., and Qiu, B. L. (2013). Evidence for horizontal transmission of secondary endosymbionts in the Bemisia tabaci cryptic species co...
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