Fig. 2: Performance of aphids harboring different symbionts and growing on uninfected or virus-infected plants.
From: Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions
a, c, e, g, i Total of wingless population over time, and (b, d, f, h, j) biomass of wingless aphids on uninfected (green lines and boxplots) and plants infected with pea enation mosaic virus (yellow lines and boxplots). Generalized linear mixed models (a, c, e, g, i lines represent averaged population projection and shadowed area display 95% confidence interval; b, d, f, h, j boxplots display median line, interquartile range (IQR) boxes, 1.5 × IQR whiskers; **p ≤ 0.01 and *p < 0.05). Aphids differed in symbiont composition: only B. aphidicola (Ba) (a-b: uninfected N = 7, infected N = 8), Ba + H. defensa (c, d: uninfected N = 9, infected N = 9), Ba + R. insecticola strain Ri (e, f: uninfected N = 9, infected N = 9), Ba + R. insecticola strain R5.15 (g, h: uninfected N = 10, infected N = 8), and Ba + Spiroplasma (i, j: uninfected N = 7, infected N = 8).
