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Bacteria: Rickettsia (General Thread)Rickettsia are a type of bacteria that can infect a wide range of spiders and possibly other inverts |
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The emerging diversity of Rickettsia
1. Steve J Perlman1*†, 2. Martha S Hunter2 and 3. Einat Zchori-Fein3† http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/273/1598/2097.full FULL PAPER!!! pdf version: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishin...ntent/273/1598/2097.full.pdf+html this paper is freaking AMAZING!! r's are known as arthropod reproductive manipulators!!! they are known to cause cytoplasmic incompatibility (infected males make females have crappy broods), feminization, parthenogenesis, and male mortality in various species one species of Rickettsia can be transmitted from infected planthoppers and have pathogenic effects on a FREAKING PLANT causing papaya bunchy top disease! that is so insane i can't quite wrap my brain around it... a disease that affects hoppers AND plants... that's... insane taxonomy info: Order Rickettsiales Families 3: Anaplasmataceae and Rickettsiaceae (both of interest to us) and Holosporaceae (live with protista, not as much interest to us) |
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Male-killing endosymbionts: influence of environmental conditions on persistence of host metapopulation
Dries Bonte, corresponding author Thomas Hovestadt, and Hans-Joachim Poethke http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2546409 full article |