| cardinium symbionts cause cytoplasmic incompatibility in spider mites. | intracellular symbiotic bacteria belonging to the cytophaga-flavobacterium-bacteroides lineage have recently been described and are widely distributed in arthropod species. the newly discovered bacteria, named cardinium sp, cause the expression of various reproductive alterations in their arthropod hosts, including cytoplasmic incompatibility (ci), induction of parthenogenesis and feminization of genetic males. we detected 16s ribosomal dna sequences similar to those of cardinium from seven popu ... | 2007 | 17035954 |
| diversity of wolbachia in natural populations of spider mites (genus tetranychus): evidence for complex infection history and disequilibrium distribution. | wolbachia are endosymbiotic bacteria that commonly infect arthropods and cause reproductive disorders in host. within several tetranychus species, wolbachia have been detected and shown to affect their reproduction. however, little is known about their transmission and distribution patterns in natural populations of tetranychus species. here, we used multilocus sequence typing to confirm wolbachia infection status and examined the relationship between wolbachia infection status and host phylogen ... | 2013 | 23429887 |
| geography has a greater effect than wolbachia infection on population genetic structure in the spider mite, tetranychus pueraricola. | wolbachia is an intracellular symbiotic bacterium that infects various spider mite species and is associated with alterations in host reproduction, which indicates the potential role in mite evolution. however, studies of wolbachia infections in the spider mite tetranychus pueraricola, a major agricultural pest, are limited. here, we used multilocus sequence typing to determine wolbachia infection status and examined the relationship between wolbachia infection status and mitochondrial diversity ... | 2016 | 27296468 |
| relationship between body colour, feeding, and reproductive arrest under short-day development in tetranychus pueraricola (acari: tetranychidae). | in tetranychus spider mites (acari: tetranychidae), diapausing females have a conspicuous orange body colour, which is used as an indicator of diapause induction in many laboratory studies. however, to which extent body colour reflects reproductive activity is scarcely investigated. in this study, we investigated the relationship between body colour, reproductive arrest, and food intake in the inbred strain of t. pueraricola individually reared at 20 °c with a 10:14 h light: dark photoperiod. ou ... | 2013 | 23420142 |