Bacterial Infections across the Ants: Frequency and Prevalence of Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia

Table 1

Wolbachia, Spiroplasma, and Asaia detected by 454 amplicon pyrosequencing across 310 ant samples.

Ant genus and subfamily	Species; screened	Individuals; screened	Colonies; screened	Number (and percent) of infected species; and number of individuals/colonies
				Wolbachia	Spiroplasma	Asaia
Camponotus (Formicinae)	1	1	1	0	1 (100%); 1/1	0
Cephalotes (Myrmicinae)	7	17	12	4 (57.1%); 4/4	2 (28.5%); 6/3	1 (14.3%); 1/1
Crematogaster (Myrmicinae)	6	6	6	1 (16.7%); 1/1	0	0
Myrmecia (Myrmeciinae)	2	3	3	0	0	0
Myrmecocystus (Formicinae)	1	1	1	0	0	0
Oecophylla (Formicinae)	1	1	1	0	0	0
Paraponera (Paraponerinae)	1	23	9	0	1 (100%); 2/2	1 (100%); 1/1
Polyrhachis (Formicinae)	32	64	60	8 (25.0%); 10/10	15 (46.9%); 15/15	0
Pseudomyrmex (Pseudomyrmecinae)	36	88	72	5 (13.9%); 5/5	5 (13.9%); 5/5	12 (33.3%); 15/15
Solenopsis (Myrmicinae)	2	11	5	1 (50%); 1/1	2 (100%); 2/1	0
Tetraponera (Pseudomyrmecinae)	6	6	6	2 (33.3%); 2/2	1 (16.7%); 1/1	0
Total	95	221	176	21 (22.1%)	27 (28.4%)	14 (14.7%)