Wolbachia pseudogenes and low prevalence infections in tropical but not temperate Australian tephritid fruit flies: manifestations of lateral gene transfer and endosymbiont spillover?

Table 2 Wolbachia prevalence across climate zones in two widely-distributed Australian fruit fly species

		Total Wolbachia prevalence			Wolbachia prevalence per climate zone (infected/total)
					Equatorial		Tropical			Subtropical					Temperate		Grasslands
Fruit Flies	Abbreviation	No.	+ve	%	Torres Strait	Weipa/Coen	Darwin	Cairns	Townsville	Mackay	Gladstone	Bundaberg	Brisbane	Lismore	Coffs Harbour	Richmond	Alice Springs
					10–11°S	12–13°S	10–12°S	16–17°S	18–19°S	20–21°S	22–23°S	24–25°S	26–27°S	28–29°S	30–31°S	32–34°S	30–31°S
B. neohumeralis	Bn	132	13	9.8	0/11	n.d		9/37	0/12	3/12	1/10	0/10	0/28	0/10	0/2
B. tryoni	Bt	190	4	2.1	n.d	0/13	0/6	2/40	0/10	2/12	0/12	0/10	0/37	n.d	0/11	0/19	0/20
Total		322	17		0/11	0/13	0/6	11/77	0/22	5/24	1/22	0/20	0/65	0/10	0/13	0/19	0/20

The latitudinal gradient of eastern Australia was divided into regions and represented by a major town or city. Darwin and Alice Springs are included as separate areas because they are not along the east coast of Australia. Regions are classified into climate groups according to the Köppen classification (Australian Bureau of Meteorology). Bactrocera neohumeralis does not occur in Darwin, Richmond or Alice Springs [32], whereas non-determined (n.d.) regions were not sampled

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