Table 3.

Primary (betaproteobacterial) endosymbiont 16S ribosomal sequences used in Fig. 4^a

Species used for isolation	16S Beta accession no.	Tree annotation
Amonostherium lichtensioides	AF476078	Alic
Antonina crawii	AB030021	Acra
Antonina pretiosa	AF476079	Apre
Australicoccus grevilleae	AF476077	Agre
Cyphonococcus alpines	AF476081	Calp
Dysmicoccus brevipes	AF476082	Dbre
Dysmicoccus neobrevipes	AF476083	Dneo
Erium globosum	AF476084	Eglo
Melanococcus albizziae	AF476087	Malb
Paracoccus nothofagicola	AF476094	Pnot
Phenacoccus aceris	HM449982	Pace
Phenacoccus solani	HM449979	Psol
Planococcus citri	AF322017	Pcit
Planococcus ficus	AF476092	Pfic
Pseudococcus calceolariaeb	JN182335	Pcal
Pseudococcus comstocki	AB374416	Pcom
Pseudococcus longispinusb	JN182336	Plon1
Pseudococcus longispinus	AF476093	Plon2
Pseudococcus longispinus	M68889	Plon3
Pseudococcus viburnib	JN182337	Pvib1
Pseudococcus viburni	AF476095	Pvib2
Vryburgia amaryllidis	AF476097	Vama

^aAll sequences are those of the 16S RNA gene from the betaproteobacterial symbiont isolated from the named pseudococcid mealybug species. The 16S ribosomal sequence from the free-living gammaproteobacterium E. coli W3110 (NCBI accession no. AP009048, annotated Ecol) was used as the outgroup.

^bConsensus sequence.