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INDIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 114-119Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12088-009-0023-z
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Insect; Bacteria; Endosymbionts; Commensal
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Insects are amongst the most successful of animals, both in terms of diversity and in colonizing all ecological niches. Recent studies have highlighted the benefi ciary roles that bacteria play in the success and establishment of insects. By adopting techniques like 16S rRNA sequencing we are now in a position to understand the diversity of bacteria present in insect guts. It has been shown that some of these bacteria, like Wolbachia and Cardinium are involved in manipulating insect populations and distorting their sex ratio. Attempts have been made to culture these bacteria in insect cell lines, as they are recalcitrant to culture under normal microbiological conditions. The diversity of bacteria associated with insects and the functional role played by them in the insect is discussed below.
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