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THE extracellular bacterium Pseudomonas savastanoi (Smith) Stevens has been suspected as a mutualist of Dacus oleae Gmelin for more than fifty years. Petri1 described in detail how the bacterium was preserved through the pupal and adult stages in an oesophageal diverticulum in the head of the olive fly, and also discovered how the bacteria were transmitted from generation to generation. During oviposition the egg is smeared with the bacteria which are housed in invaginations near the distal end of the ovipositor. The bacteria enter the egg through the micropyle and ultimately become established in caeca arising from the anterior end of the larval mid gut. The functions of this symbiote, however, were not determined.
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HAGEN, K. Dependence of the Olive Fly, Dacus oleae, Larvae on Symbiosis with Pseudomonas savastanoi for the Utilization of Olive. Nature 209, 423–424 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/209423a0
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