Microbiota analysis revealed vertical transmission and microbial adjusting function of symbiotic fungus in the attelabid weevil fungiculture

作     者：Bin Lin Lin Wang Muzammi Hussain Xiaoling Zhang Jianqing Tian Sha Qi Xingzhong Liu Meichun Xiang 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of MycologyInstitute of MicrobiologyChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China Institute of Apicultural ResearchChinese Academy of Agriculture SciencesBeijing 100093China University of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100049China 

出 版 物：《Science China(Life Sciences)》 (中国科学（生命科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2019年第62卷第12期

页      面：1717-1721页

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学科分类：090703[农学-森林保护学] 0907[农学-林学] 09[农学] 

基　　金：the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31270070) 

主　　题：weevil culture fungus 

摘      要：Dear Editor,Microbial symbionts are crucial participants in the life history of fungus-farming insects (Mueller et al., 2005;Youngsteadt, 2008). The attelabid weevil (Euops chinensis)feeding on Fallopia japonica in southern China, has evolved a special proto-farming bipartite symbiosis with the fungus(Penicillium herquei), which produces antibiotic (+)-scleroderolide in the leaf-rolls (cradle for offspring development) to protect the offspring from potential microbial parasites and pathogens (Sakurai, 1985;Wang et al., 2015).