Primates, Lice and Bacteria: Speciation and Genome Evolution in the Symbionts of Hominid Lice

Insects with restricted diets rely on symbiotic bacteria to provide essential metabolites missing in their diet. The blood-sucking lice are obligate, host-specific parasites of mammals and are themselves host to symbiotic bacteria. In human lice, these bacterial symbionts supply the lice with B-vita...

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Autores principales: Boyd, Bret M., Allen, Julie M., Nguyen, Nam-Phuong, Vachaspati, Pranjal, Quicksall, Zachary S., Warnow, Tandy, Mugisha, Lawrence, Johnson, Kevin P., Reed, David L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:
Discoveries
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5455983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28419279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx117

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5455983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28419279
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msx117

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