One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

BACKGROUND: Bacterial endosymbiosis has a recurring significance in the evolution of insects. An estimated 10-20% of insect species depend on bacterial associates for their nutrition and reproductive viability. Members of the ant tribe Camponotini, the focus of this study, possess a stable, intracel...

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Autores principales: Wernegreen, Jennifer J, Kauppinen, Seth N, Brady, Seán G, Ward, Philip S
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/PMC2810300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20015388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-292

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2810300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20015388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-292

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