Endosymbiotic Bacterial Diversity of Corn Leaf Aphid, Fitch (Hemiptera: Aphididae) Associated with Maize Management Systems.

In this study, different maize fields cultivated under different management systems were sampled to test corn leaf aphid, , populations in terms of total and endosymbiotic bacterial diversity. Corn leaf aphid natural populations were collected from traditionally managed maize fields grown under high agricultural and natural landscape diversity as well as conventionally treated high-input agricultural fields grown in monoculture and with fertilizers use, hence with low natural landscape diversity. Total bacterial community assessment by DNA sequencing was performed using the Illumina MiSeq platform.