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Fig. 4

From: Symbionts in waiting: the dynamics of incipient endosymbiont complementation and replacement in minimal bacterial communities of psyllids

Fig. 4

Relative titres of P- and S-endosymbionts in Cardiaspina spp. determined by qPCR. Cq values for Carsonella, Arsenophonus and Sodalis were normalised to the EF1a host gene (see Additional file 8), and species means of endosymbiont copy number were plotted. Tukey’s post hoc tests were performed and the results displayed over each bar, demonstrating no significant difference between the titres of the P- and S-endosymbionts within and between four species, but significantly higher Carsonella titres for C. fiscella and C. maniformis than the other species. Cardiaspina albitextura was included to display relative Carsonella titre only; while Arsenophonus was present in each individual of C. albitextura based on amplicon sequencing data, it was not detected using the atpA qPCR primer set

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