bacteriocyte

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bacteriocyte

[bak′tir·ē·ə‚sīt]

(invertebrate zoology)

A modified fat cell found in certain insects that contains bacterium-shaped rods believed to be symbiotic bacteria.

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Symbioses with intracellular carbon-fixing bacteria, believed to be dependent on bacteriocyte hemoglobin, have heretofore been described only in clams of the families Solemyidae, Lucinidae, and Vesicomyidae and in a few mussels, Mytilidae, restricted to the genus Bathy-modiolus (4).

Hemoglobin in the symbiont-harboring gill of the marine gastropod Alviniconcha hessleri

Ultrabithorax is essential for bacteriocyte development.

Shifting the Balance: Heat Stress Challenges the Symbiotic Interactions of the Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera, Liviidae)

Nakabuchi discusses how mutualism can be revealed by a study of symbiont genomics and bacteriocyte transcriptomics (Chapter 8).

Bourtzis, K., and Miller, T. A. (Eds.) 2009. Insect Symbiosis. Vol. 3. (Contemporary Topics in Entomology Series)

aequizonata show a dense population of bacteria filling most of the bacteriocyte (Fig.

Extreme tolerance to anoxia in the Lucinoma aequizonata symbiosis

The bacteria are intracellular and restricted to one cell type, generically known as the bacteriocyte, which apparently functions exclusively to house and maintain the symbiosis.

Making the most of "omics" for symbiosis research

Moreover, it is confined to a second type of bacteriocyte that, notably, is as abundant as Buchnera-filled bacteriocytes in the cedar aphid host (Gomez-Valero et at, 2004).

Strategies of genomic integration within insect-bacterial mutualisms

Bacteriocyte: host cell containing symbionts (Southward, 1982; Hand, 1987; deBurgh et al., 1989; Gardiner and Jones, 1993).

The Osedax trophosome: organization and ultrastructure

Bacteriocyte. Host cell containing symbionts (Southward, 1982).

Organization and microanatomy of the Sclerolinum contortum trophosome (Polychaeta, Siboglinidae)

The data presented here offer a first glimpse into the relationship between metabolite flux, chemoautotrophic activity, and host bacteriocyte gene expression in a chemoautotrophic symbiosis.

Coupling metabolite flux to transcriptomics: insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying primary productivity by the hydrothermal vent tubeworm ridgeia piscesae

Roots contain large blood vessels, bacteriocyte layer, and epidermis.

Acquisition of dwarf male "harems" by recently settled females of Osedax roseus n. sp. (Siboglinidae; Annelida)

The gill filaments in these species are expanded abfrontally and have a distinct bacteriocyte zone (Fig.

Gill anatomy and the evolution of symbiosis in the bivalve family Thyasiridae

The bacteriocytes are typically spherical or cylindrical.

Bacterial endosymbionts in the gills of the deep-sea wood-boring bivalves Xylophaga atlantica and Xylophaga washingtona