Diverse Strategies for Vertical Symbiont Transmission among Subsocial Stinkbugs

Sociality may affect symbiosis and vice versa. Many plant-sucking stinkbugs harbor mutualistic bacterial symbionts in the midgut. In the superfamily Pentatomoidea, adult females excrete symbiont-containing materials from the anus, which their offspring ingest orally and establish vertical symbiont t...

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Autores principales: Hosokawa, Takahiro, Hironaka, Mantaro, Inadomi, Koichi, Mukai, Hiromi, Nikoh, Naruo, Fukatsu, Takema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23741463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065081

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23741463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065081

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