Amino acid transporters implicated in endocytosis of Buchnera during symbiont transmission in the pea aphid.
Journal
EvoDevo
Journal Volume
7
Pages
24
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
BACKGROUND: transmission and developmental integration. RESULTS: was expressed in nuclei at the leading edge of the bacterial mass, joining the bacterial mass in subsequent developmental stages. Finally, quantitative reverse transcription real-time PCR suggested that early in development both transcripts were maternally provisioned to embryos. CONCLUSIONS: by the aphid blastula. Our data support earlier reports of bacteriocyte determination involving a two-step recruitment process but suggest that the second wave of recruitment occurs earlier than previously described. Finally, our work highlights that bacteriocyte-enriched amino acid transporter paralogs have additionally been retained to play novel developmental roles in both symbiont recruitment and bacteriome development.
Type
journal article