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Weevil Carbohydrate Intake Triggers Endosymbiont Proliferation: A Trade-Off between Host Benefit and Endosymbiont Burden

Nutritional symbioses between insects and intracellular bacteria (endosymbionts) are a major force of adaptation, allowing animals to colonize nutrient-poor ecological niches. Many beetles feeding on tyrosine-poor substrates rely on a surplus of aromatic amino acids produced by bacterial endosymbion...

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Autores principales: Dell’Aglio, Elisa, Lacotte, Virginie, Peignier, Sergio, Rahioui, Isabelle, Benzaoui, Fadéla, Vallier, Agnès, Da Silva, Pedro, Desouhant, Emmanuel, Heddi, Abdelaziz, Rebollo, Rita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10127669/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36779765
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mbio.03333-22