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Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
insect science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.991
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1744-7917
pISSN - 1672-9609
DOI - 10.1111/1744-7917.12264
Subject(s) - biology , insect , brown planthopper , host (biology) , cover (algebra) , adaptation (eye) , botany , ecology , genetics , gene , mechanical engineering , engineering , neuroscience
The brown planthopper (BPH), the most serious rice insect pest in Asia, is monophagous and feeds only on the phloem sap of the rice plant. Microbial endosymbionts of BPH, including yeast‐like endosymbionts and bacterial endosymbionts, play important roles in insect‐plant competition, thereby facilitating the BPH's adaptation to its rice host. To better understand the interactions of microbe‐insect‐plant, a detailed description of the genomic features of the bacterial endosymbiont, Arsenophonus nilaparvatae , was provided in this issue (see pages 478‐486). Photo provided by Chuan‐Xi Zhang.