| relative abundance and strain diversity in the bacterial endosymbiont community of a sap-feeding insect across its native and introduced geographic range. | most insects are associated with bacterial symbionts. the bacterial diversity and community composition within hosts may play an important role in shaping insect population biology, ecology and evolution. we focussed on the bacterial microbiome of the australian fig homotomid mycopsylla fici (hemiptera: psylloidea), which can cause defoliation of its only host tree, ficus macrophylla. this sap-feeding insect is native to mainland australia and lord howe island (lhi) but also occurs where its hos ... | 2017 | 28386769 |