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A Novel, Extremely Elongated, and Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont Supports Cuticle Formation of a Grain Pest Beetle

The saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Silvanidae), is a cosmopolitan stored-product pest. Early studies on O. surinamensis in the 1930s described the presence of peculiar bacteriomes harboring endosymbiotic bacteria in the abdomen. Since then, however, the microbiological nature o...

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Autores principales: Hirota, Bin, Okude, Genta, Anbutsu, Hisashi, Futahashi, Ryo, Moriyama, Minoru, Meng, Xian-Ying, Nikoh, Naruo, Koga, Ryuichi, Fukatsu, Takema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5615201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28951480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01482-17