Impacts of Antibiotic and Bacteriophage Treatments on the Gut-Symbiont-Associated Blissus insularis (Hemiptera: Blissidae)
The Southern chinch bug, Blissus insularis, possesses specialized midgut crypts that harbor dense populations of the exocellular wella color charm 050 cooling violet symbiont Burkholderia.Oral administration of antibiotics suppressed the gut symbionts in B.insularis and negatively impacted insect host fitness, as reflected by retarded development,