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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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BioMed Central
2009
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| 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 |