PMID- 25788442 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170428 LR - 20170428 IS - 1744-7917 (Electronic) IS - 1672-9609 (Linking) VI - 23 IP - 5 DP - 2016 Oct TI - Molecular characterization and diversity analysis of bacterial communities associated with Dialeurolonga malleswaramensis (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) adults using 16S rDNA amplicon pyrosequencing and FISH. PG - 704-11 LID - 10.1111/1744-7917.12220 [doi] AB - Dialeurolonga malleswaramensis Sundararaj (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) is a phytophagous sap sucking insect. It infests Polyalthia longifolia, an important avenue tree of India, effective in alleviating noise pollution and having immense medicinal importance. Samples of this insect were collected from Polyalthia longifolia. The cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene (mtCO1) helped in the molecular characterization of the insect. This study reports the bacterial diversity in D. malleswaramensis adults by high throughput 16S rDNA amplicon pyrosequencing. The major genera identified were Portiera and Arsenophonus. Other bacterial genera detected were uncultured alpha proteobacterium, Sphingopyxis and Methylobacterium. We also employed fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) in whole mount samples to confirm the presence of dominant endosymbionts Portiera and Arsenophonus to the bacteriocyte of D. malleswaramensis. This study concludes that combining techniques like 16S rDNA amplicon pyrosequencing and FISH reveal both dominant and rare bacteria. The data also predict the evolutionary position of this pest with respect to other whitefly species using a mitochondrial marker. CI - (c) 2015 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. FAU - Pandey, Neeti AU - Pandey N AD - Gut Biology Lab, Room No 117, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India. FAU - Rajagopal, Raman AU - Rajagopal R AD - Gut Biology Lab, Room No 117, Department of Zoology, University of Delhi, Delhi, 110007, India. zoorajagopal@gmail.com. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20150519 PL - Australia TA - Insect Sci JT - Insect science JID - 101266965 RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bacteria/*genetics/isolation & purification MH - DNA, Bacterial/*genetics MH - Hemiptera/genetics/*microbiology MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - India MH - Mitochondria/genetics MH - Phylogeny MH - Polyalthia/parasitology MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/*genetics MH - Symbiosis OTO - NOTNLM OT - 16S rDNA amplicon pyrosequencing OT - Dialeurolonga malleswaramensis OT - FISH OT - bacterial diversity OT - mtCO1 EDAT- 2015/03/20 06:00 MHDA- 2017/04/30 06:00 CRDT- 2015/03/20 06:00 PHST- 2014/02/15 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/03/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/03/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/04/30 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/1744-7917.12220 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Insect Sci. 2016 Oct;23(5):704-11. doi: 10.1111/1744-7917.12220. Epub 2015 May 19.