Diego Santos-Garcia
Pierre-Antoine Farnier
Francisco Beitia
Einat Zchori-Fein
Fabrice Vavre
Laurence Mouton
Andrés Moya
Amparo Latorre
Francisco J. Silva
The genome of “Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum,” the primary endosymbiont of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Mediterranean species), is reported. It presents a reduced genome (357 kb) encoding the capability to synthetize, or participate in the synthesis of, several amino acids and carotenoids, being the first insect endosymbiont capable of supplying carotenoids.
Diego Santos-Garcia
Pierre-Antoine Farnier
Francisco Beitia
Einat Zchori-Fein
Fabrice Vavre
Laurence Mouton
Andrés Moya
Amparo Latorre
Francisco J. Silva
The genome of “Candidatus Portiera aleyrodidarum,” the primary endosymbiont of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Mediterranean species), is reported. It presents a reduced genome (357 kb) encoding the capability to synthetize, or participate in the synthesis of, several amino acids and carotenoids, being the first insect endosymbiont capable of supplying carotenoids.