Secondary (γ-Proteobacteria) Endosymbionts Infect the Primary (β-Proteobacteria) Endosymbionts of Mealybugs Multiple Times and Coevolve with Their Hosts

By M. Thao, P. Gullan, P. Baumann. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2002

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Coccidology. The study of scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea) (2009, background): “Although among the ortheziids Arctorthezia cataphracta (Olafsen) is known to feed on a basidiomycete fungal species (Thorpe, 1968) and Newsteadia kanayana Kawai & Takagi on fungal mats (Kawai, 1980), the majority of scale insects feed on plants, especially flowering plants (angiosperms).”
A subfamily‐level classification of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae) based on integrated molecular and morphological data (2008, methodology): “As noted by Downie & Gullan (2004), Thao et al. (2002) were unable to find secondary symbionts in Ferrisia and Maconellicoccus, although their primary endosymbionts are related to those found in other pseudococcines in their analysis.”
Novel Approaches for the Management of Mealybug Pests (2009, background): “Within their body cavities, mealybugs have a structure, the bacteriome, which comprises specialized cells, the bacteriocytes, which harbor the primary endosymbionts, that is, the P-endosymbionts (Kono et al. 2008 ; Thao et al. 2002) .”
Biology bacteriocyte-associated endosymbionts of plant sap-sucking insects. (2005, methodology): “Once the association between Tremblaya and the Sendosymbiont was established, the two were inherited as a unit resulting in cospeciation (134).”
Phylogenetic analysis of mealybugs (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae) based on DNA sequences from three nuclear genes, and a review of the higher classification (2004, background): “S-endosymbionts were not found in the species of Ferrisia and Maconellicoccus surveyed by Thao et al. (2002), although their P-endosymbionts were related to P-endosymbionts in other mealybug genera which did have S-endosymbionts.”
Vertical Transmission of a Pentatomid Caeca-Associated Symbiont (2006, background): “Despite the large number of studies on the identiÞcation and phylogenetic placement of hemipteran endosymbionts among other bacteria, the position of many taxa is inconclusive (Fukatsu and Nikoh 1998, Thao et al. 2002, Aksoy 2003).”