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

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.

• 2021

• Ammar, El-Desouky
• Gasparich, Gail E.
• Hall, David G.
• Hogenhout, Saskia A.

Preparation: glutaraldehyde fixed tissue; osmium tetroxide fixed tissue; tissue in epoxy resin embedment
Relation to intact cell: sectioned tissue
Item type: recorded image
Imaging mode: transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
Parameter imaged: electron density
Source of contrast: differences in adsorption or binding of stain
Visualization methods: uranyl salt; lead salt
Processing history: unprocessed raw data

• Cell Image Library Group ID: 4862

• Bacteria: Spiroplasma, Class Mollicutes
• Insect host: Macrosteles quadrilineatus (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae)
• Mollicutes

• Bacteria
• Cytoplasm
• Epithelial cell
• Microvillus
• Nucleus

• Detection of symbiotic bacterium

• data
• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Samplenumber: 12648

Doi: https://doi.org/10.6075/J0M907DD

Source data

• Source Record in the Cell Image Library: https://doi.org/10.7295/W9CIL12648

Reference

• Arch Microbiol (2011) 193:35–44 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=20978745

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