The Developmental Stage Symbionts of the Pea Aphid-Feeding Chrysoperla sinica (Tjeder).

ABSTRACT: Chrysoperla sinica (Tjeder) is widely recognized as an important holometabolous natural enemy of various insect pests in different cropping systems and as a non-target surrogate in environmental risk assessment of Bt rice (i.e., genetically modified rice to express a toxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis). Like other complex organisms, abundant microbes live inside C. sinica; however, to date, microbiome composition and diversity of the whole life cycle in C. sinica has not yet been well characterized. In the current study, we analyze the composition and biodiversity of microbiota across the whole life cycle of C. sinica by using high-throughput Illumina sequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene. Collectively, Proteobacteria and Firmicutes dominated the m

SUBMITTER: Zhao C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6839393 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature