Blochmannia endosymbionts improve colony growth and immune defence in the ant Camponotus fellah

BACKGROUND: Microorganisms are a large and diverse form of life. Many of them live in association with large multicellular organisms, developing symbiotic relations with the host and some have even evolved to form obligate endosymbiosis [1]. All Carpenter ants (genus Camponotus) studied hitherto har...

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Autores principales: de Souza, Danival J, Bézier, Annie, Depoix, Delphine, Drezen, Jean-Michel, Lenoir, Alain
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19200360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-29

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19200360
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-29

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