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Spiroplasmas are bacteria in the Class Mollicutes that are frequently associated with insects and/or plants. This electron micrograph shows symbiotic/ commensal spiroplasma-like organisms (SLOs) in the midgut of a leafhopper, Macrosteles quadrilineatus. SLOs found in this insect are long and tubular shaped with a tip structure (t). These SLOs (S) were found in great numbers in the gut lumen (lu) frequently associated with gut microvilli, but unlike the plant-pathogenic mollicutes, they did not seem to invade the gut epithelium (ec) or other tissues in their leafhopper hosts. This image is related to Fig. 1 in Arch. Microbiol (2011) 193:35-44. Research Data Curation Program, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/rdcp) Ammar, El-Desouky; Gasparich, Gail E.; Hall, David G.; Hogenhout, Saskia A. (2021). CIL:12648, Mollicutes, Insect host: Macrosteles quadrilineatus (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), epithelial cell, bacteria. In Cell Image Library. UC San Diego Library Digital Collections. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.6075/J0M907DD
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Detection of symbiotic bacterium Cytoplasm Epithelial cell Microvillus Bacteria Nucleus Mollicutes Insect host: Macrosteles quadrilineatus (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) Bacteria: Spiroplasma, Class Mollicutes Cell Image Library Group ID: 4862
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