Role of Endosymbionts in Nutritional Uptake of Sap Sucking Insects

Abstract

Insects are the most diverse and abundant group, comprising 95% of the animal clade. The bacteria domesticate the host and can potentially serve numerous purposes of the host. Insects of the suborder Sternorrhyncha of order Hemiptera feed on plant sap. These exhibit types of endosymbiosis, from obligate mutualism to facultative parasitism. Many beneficial services are given to the sap sucking host insect by bacterial endosymbionts, supply of nutrition, mainly the essential amino acids is one of them. Here we are discussing nutritional function of endosymbionts of hemipteran host.