Symbiotic microorganisms in <Emphasis Type="Italic">Puto superbus</Emphasis> (Leonardi, 1907) (Insecta,Hemiptera, Coccomorpha: Putoidae) |
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Authors: | Teresa?Szklarzewicz Ma?gorzata?Kalandyk-Ko?odziejczyk Katarzyna?Michalik W?adys?awa?Jankowska Email author" target="_blank">Anna?MichalikEmail author |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Developmental Biology and Morphology of Invertebrates, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research,Jagiellonian University,Kraków,Poland;2.Department of Zoology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection,University of Silesia,Katowice,Poland |
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Abstract: | The scale insect Puto superbus (Putoidae) lives in mutualistic symbiotic association with bacteria. Molecular phylogenetic analyses have revealed that symbionts of P. superbus belong to the gammaproteobacterial genus Sodalis. In the adult females, symbionts occur both in the bacteriocytes constituting compact bacteriomes and in individual bacteriocytes, which are dispersed among ovarioles. The bacteriocytes also house a few small, rod-shaped Wolbachia bacteria in addition to the numerous large, elongated Sodalis-allied bacteria. The symbiotic microorganisms are transovarially transmitted from generation to generation. In adult females which have choriogenic oocytes in the ovarioles, the bacteriocytes gather around the basal part of the tropharium. Next, the entire bacteriocytes pass through the follicular epithelium surrounding the neck region of the ovariole and enter the space between oocyte and follicular epithelium (perivitelline space). In the perivitelline space, the bacteriocytes assemble extracellularly in the deep depression of the oolemma at the anterior pole of the oocyte, forming a “symbiont ball”. |
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