Endosymbiont diversity in brown widow spiders

We investigated endosymbiont diversity and prevalence across putative native and invasive populations of the brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, predicting lower endosymbiont diversity across the invasive range compared to the native range. We characterized the microbial community in the putative native (South Africa) and invasive (Israel and the United States) ranges via high throughput 16S sequencing of 103 adult females.

本研究探讨了棕褐色捕鸟蛛（Latrodectus geometricus）的潜在本土和入侵种群中的共生生物多样性及其普遍性，预测入侵区域的共生生物多样性低于本土区域。我们通过高通量16S测序技术，对103只成年雌性个体在潜在本土区域（南非）和入侵区域（以色列和美国）的微生物群落进行了特征描述。