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Some physiological and ecological features of this pest have been studied, but the microbiological nature of symbiotic bacteria and biological aspects of this host\u2013symbiont interaction have been poorly understood. In the present study, we explored the host-associated environment, phylogeny, and acquisition features of the bacterial symbiont of the insect. Furthermore, the importance of the symbiont on the biological (i.e., lifespan, stage composition, and body weight) and behavioral characteristics (i.e., resting\/wandering behaviors of the newborn nymphs) of the host were investigated. We found that a rod-shaped gammaproteobacterium was persistently colonized the fourth midgut region of the insect. Molecular phylogenetic and fluorescence in situ hybridization analyses strongly suggest that this symbiont should be placed in the genus Pantoea of the Enterobacteriales. Egg surface sterilization resulted in the aposymbiotic insects suggesting the vertical transmission of symbiont via egg surface smearing upon oviposition. Symbiotic and aposymbiotic B. germari showed no significant differences in the wandering behaviors of the first nymphal stages, whereas the symbiont-free insects exhibited retarded growth, lower longevity, and adult body weight. Taken together, these data provide a better understanding of the relationship between the bacterial symbiont and B. germari and demonstrate that the insect is heavily affected by the deprival of its gut symbionts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/ee\/nvz089","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,28]],"date-time":"2019-06-28T15:09:48Z","timestamp":1561734588000},"page":"1079-1087","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["Heritable Gammaproteobacterial Symbiont Improves the Fitness of Brachynema germari Kolenati (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"48","author":[{"given":"Marzieh","family":"Kashkouli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7963-5409","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yaghoub","family":"Fathipour","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2981-7308","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohammad","family":"Mehrabadi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"2019093000024391300_CIT0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"351","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mimet.2011.06.010","article-title":"Improvement of phylum- and class-specific primers for real-time PCR quantification of bacterial taxa","volume":"86","author":"Bacchetti De Gregoris","year":"2011","journal-title":"J. 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