The uzifly, Exorista sorbillans (Diptera: Tachinidae), a parasitoid of the silkworm, Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae), harbours Wolbachia (Rickettsia) endosymbionts. Administration of 0.05 mg/ml oxytetracycline to the adult uziflies removed Wolbachia endosymbionts and resulted in different reproductive disorders, such as i) reduction in fecundity of uninfected females, ii) cytoplasmic i...

In the high-throughput sequencing (HTS) era, a metabarcoding technique based on bacterial V3–V4 hypervariable region of 16S rRNA analysis requires sophisticated bioinformatics pipelines and validated methods that allow researchers to compare their data with confidence. Many commercial laboratories conduct extensive HTS analyses; however, there is no available information whether results generat...

With the increasing negative impacts on worldwide food production caused by pests, recovery of native entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs) is relevant, since they are adapted to local environments, entomofauna, and significant virulence. Therefore, present study was designed recover understand phylogenetic diversity EPNs their associated bacterial endosymbionts, from banana plantain crops, as alte...