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Weevil endosymbiont dynamics is associated with a clamping of immunity
BACKGROUND: Insects subsisting on nutritionally unbalanced diets have evolved long-term mutualistic relationships with intracellular symbiotic bacteria (endosymbionts). The endosymbiont population load undergoes changes along with insect development. In the cereal weevil Sitophilus oryzae, the midgu...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4617454/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26482132 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12864-015-2048-5 |