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Aphids evolved novel secreted proteins for symbiosis with bacterial endosymbiont

Aphids evolved novel cells, called bacteriocytes, that differentiate specifically to harbour the obligatory mutualistic endosymbiotic bacteria Buchnera aphidicola. The genome of the host aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum contains many orphan genes that display no similarity with genes found in other sequenc...

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Autores principales: Shigenobu, Shuji, Stern, David L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23173201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1952