The best-known members of the bacterial genus Rickettsia are associates of blood-feeding
arthropods that are pathogenic when transmitted to vertebrates. These species include the …

Rickettsia are best known as strictly intracellular vector‐borne bacteria that cause mild to
severe diseases in humans and other animals. Recent advances in molecular tools and …

Background Inherited bacteria have come to be recognised as important components of
arthropod biology. In addition to mutualistic symbioses, a range of other inherited bacteria …

Background Rickettsia are intracellular symbionts of eukaryotes that are best known for
infecting and causing serious diseases in humans and other mammals. All known vertebrate …

ABSTRACT Whiteflies (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) are sap-sucking insects that harbor
“Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum,” an obligatory symbiotic bacterium which is housed in …

Background The genome sequence of Rickettsia felis revealed a number of rickettsial
genetic anomalies that likely contribute not only to a large genome size relative to other …

Background Completed genome sequences are rapidly increasing for Rickettsia, obligate
intracellular α-proteobacteria responsible for various human diseases, including epidemic …

Most species of insect, and many other plants and animals, carry maternally heritable
microorganisms—viruses, bacteria, unicellular eukaryotes, and fungi that pass from a female …

Background Whiteflies are cosmopolitan phloem-feeding pests that cause serious damage
to many crops worldwide due to direct feeding and vectoring of many plant viruses. The …

The larval endoparasitoid, Neochrysocharis formosa (Westwood), is an important natural
enemy of the leafminer Liriomyza trifolii (Burgess) in Japan. The thelytokous strain of N …