Insight into the microbial world of Bemisia tabaci cryptic species complex and its relationships with its host.

ABSTRACT: The 37 currently recognized Bemisia tabaci cryptic species are economically important species and contain both primary and secondary endosymbionts, but their diversity has never been mapped systematically across the group. To achieve this, PacBio sequencing of full-length bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicons was carried out on 21 globally collected species in the B. tabaci complex, and two samples from B. afer were used here as outgroups. The microbial diversity was first explored across the major lineages of the whole group and 15 new putative bacterial sequences were observed. Extensive comparison of our results with previous endosymbiont diversity surveys which used PCR or multiplex 454 pyrosequencing platforms showed that the bacterial diversity was underestimated. To validate these new p

SUBMITTER: Wang HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484021 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature