{"response":{"status":"ok","message_type":"publication"},"id":4618,"citation":"Moran et al., 2005, Applied and Environmental Microbiology","doi":"10.1128/aem.71.12.8802-8810.2005","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/publications/4618.json","link_ext":"https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.71.12.8802-8810.2005","title":"Symbiosis and Insect Diversification: an Ancient Symbiont of Sap-Feeding Insects from the Bacterial Phylum\n                    \u003ci\u003eBacteroidetes\u003c/i\u003e","journal":"Applied and Environmental Microbiology","journal_loc":"71 (12)","journal_date":"2005-12-01","pub_type":"journal-article","abstract":"\u003cjats:title\u003eABSTRACT\u003c/jats:title\u003e\n                  \u003cjats:p\u003e\n                    Several insect groups have obligate, vertically transmitted bacterial symbionts that provision hosts with nutrients that are limiting in the diet. Some of these bacteria have been shown to descend from ancient infections. Here we show that the large group of related insects including cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, spittlebugs, and planthoppers host a distinct clade of bacterial symbionts. This newly described symbiont lineage belongs to the phylum\n                    \u003cjats:italic\u003eBacteroidetes\u003c/jats:italic\u003e\n                    . Analyses of 16S rRNA genes indicate that the symbiont phylogeny is completely congruent with the phylogeny of insect hosts as currently known. These results support the ancient acquisition of a symbiont by a shared ancestor of these insects, dating the original infection to at least 260 million years ago. As visualized in a species of spittlebug (Cercopoidea) and in a species of sharpshooter (Cicadellinae), the symbionts have extraordinarily large cells with an elongate shape, often more than 30 μm in length; in situ hybridizations verify that these correspond to the phylum\n                    \u003cjats:italic\u003eBacteroidetes\u003c/jats:italic\u003e\n                    . “\n                    \u003cjats:italic\u003eCandidatus\u003c/jats:italic\u003e\n                    Sulcia muelleri” is proposed as the name of the new symbiont.\n                  \u003c/jats:p\u003e","long_citation_html":"Moran et al. (2005). Symbiosis and Insect Diversification: an Ancient Symbiont of Sap-Feeding Insects from the Bacterial Phylum\n                    \u003ci\u003eBacteroidetes\u003c/i\u003e. \n\u003ci\u003eApplied and Environmental Microbiology\u003c/i\u003e.\n\u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.71.12.8802-8810.2005\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDOI: 10.1128/aem.71.12.8802-8810.2005\u003c/a\u003e\n","created_at":"2026-06-24T11:57:01.154Z","updated_at":"2026-06-25T00:00:22.949Z","authors":[{"id":138,"given":"Nancy A.","family":"Moran","created_at":"2019-04-15T18:45:43.597Z","updated_at":"2019-04-15T18:45:43.597Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/138.json"},{"id":18766,"given":"Phat","family":"Tran","created_at":"2026-06-24T11:57:01.492Z","updated_at":"2026-06-24T11:57:01.492Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18766.json"},{"id":18767,"given":"Nicole M.","family":"Gerardo","created_at":"2026-06-24T11:57:01.506Z","updated_at":"2026-06-24T11:57:01.506Z","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/authors/18767.json"}],"names":[{"id":36,"name":"Candidatus Sulcia muelleri","url":"https://api.seqco.de/v1/names/36.json","uri":"https://seqco.de/i:36"}],"subjects":[]}