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Partnering With a Pest: Genomes of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Symbionts Reveal Atypical Nutritional Provisioning Patterns in Dual-Obligate Bacteria

Nutritional bacterial symbionts enhance the diets of sap-feeding insects with amino acids and vitamins missing from their diets. In many lineages, an ancestral senior symbiont is joined by a younger junior symbiont. To date, an emergent pattern is that senior symbionts supply a majority of amino aci...

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Autores principales: Weglarz, Kathryn M, Havill, Nathan P, Burke, Gaelen R, von Dohlen, Carol D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6022629/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29860412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evy114