Relevance of the endosymbiosis of Blochmannia floridanus and carpenter ants at different stages of the life cycle of the host

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Expression of several genes possibly involved in the symbiotic relationship between the obligate intracellular endosymbiont Blochmannia floridanus and its ant host Camponotus floridanus was investigated at different developmental stages of the host by real-time quantitative PCR. The overall transcriptional activity of Blochmannia was found to be quite low during early developmental stages and to increase steadily with host age.

Author: Gross, Roy, Zientz, Evelyn, Beyaert, Ivo, Feldhaar, Heike
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Publication Name: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0099-2240
Year: 2006
Germany, Behavior, Environmental aspects, Host-bacteria relationships, Ants, Endosymbiosis

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Metabolic interdependence of obligate intracellular bacteria and their insect hosts

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The intracellular phase is an absolute requirement for the maternally transmitted mutualistic bacteria of insects and no or only short extracellular phases during the development of their host animals may occur during their life cycle. Lynn Margulis has suggested a prokaryotic origin of cell organelles such as mitochondria and chloroplasts.

Author: Gross, Roy, Zientz, Evelyn, Dandekar, Thomas
Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
Publication Name: Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 1092-2172
Year: 2004
Bacterial infections, Margulis, Lynn

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