Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

We collected fitness data in two experiments. For each experiment, we put eight pots of cowpea plants (Vigna ungulata) that had been previously infested with B. tabaci into individual rearing jars and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama) is an insect pest capable of transmitting Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), the ...

Organellogenesis, where an endosymbiont is transformed into an organelle within the host, is not well understood. In a recent study, researchers identified two novel dinoflagellates containing relic ...

The endosymbiont in A. deanei thus represents an intermediate stage between an endosymbiotic bacterium -- which is still genetically autonomous -- and an organelle, which is almost entirely controlled ...

Aim: We analysed data from an insect host (Cryptocercus punctuiatus) and its maternally-inherited obligate bacterial endosymbiont (Blattabacterium cuenoti str. punctuiatus) to address the following: ...

Mitochondria and plastids are organelles within eukaryotic cells that are thought to have derived from endosymbiotic bacteria and that, throughout evolution, have become entirely dependent on their ...

Even if the well-known endosymbiotic theory is right, and once free-living single-celled organisms evolved to become organelles within larger cells, much remains unexplained about how, exactly, ...