Role of Host Nutrition in Symbiont Regulation: Impact of Dietary Nitrogen on Proliferation of Obligate and Facultative Bacterial Endosymbionts of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon Pisum

Overview

Journal Appl Environ Microbiol

Specialties Environmental Health
Microbiology

Date 2006 Dec 13

PMID 17158610

Citations 29

Authors

T L Wilkinson

R Koga

T Fukatsu

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Abstract

The impact of host nutrition on symbiont regulation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum was investigated. The population density of the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola positively correlated with dietary nitrogen levels. In contrast, the population density of the facultative symbiont Serratia symbiotica increased in aphids reared on low-nitrogen diets, indicating distinct regulatory mechanisms in the same insect host.

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