Intracellular heritable symbionts have been incorporated into insect reproductive and developmental biology by various mechanisms. All
Bemisia tabaci
species harbor the obligate symbiont
Portiera
in specialized insect cells called bacteriocytes. We report that the whitefly juvenile hormone and
Portiera
determined vitellogenin (Vg) localization in bacteriocytes of whiteflies.
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