title: Cicada endosymbiont from Tettigades ulnaria
organism: insect metagenome
description: Cicadas species are globally distributed and are important insects ecologically and economically. Their success depends upon amino acid providing bacteria that are harbored in specialized organs called bacteriomes. These bacteria have among the smallest genomes of any bacteria; how they function at a cellular level with such small genomes is unknown. To address this question, we sequenced the bacterial symbionts harbored by Cicada species from around the world.
attributes.tag: collection_date
attributes.value: 2013-02-12
attributes.tag: feature
attributes.value: Pinus and Eucaliptus plantation
attributes.tag: geo_loc_name
attributes.value: Chile: near Pichilemu city
attributes.tag: lat_lon
attributes.value: 34.4808 S 71.9753 W
attributes.tag: material
attributes.value: tissue sample
attributes.tag: host
attributes.value: Tettigades ulnaria
attributes.tag: isolation_source
attributes.value: Cicada
attributes.tag: environment_biome
attributes.value: forest
attributes.tag: host_sex
attributes.value: female
attributes.tag: host_tissue_sampled
attributes.value: bacteriome
attributes.tag: BioSampleModel
attributes.value: MIMS.me
attributes.tag: BioSampleModel
attributes.value: MIGS/MIMS/MIMARKS.host-associated