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Infection pattern and negative effects of a facultative endosymbiont on its insect host are environment-dependent

Regiella insecticola is a bacterial endosymbiont in insects that exhibits a negative effect on the fitness of hosts. Thus, it is not clear why this costly endosymbiont can persist in host populations. Here, we tested a hypothesis that the infection pattern and negative roles of the endosymbiont were...

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Autores principales: Liu, Xiang-Dong, Lei, Hai-Xia, Chen, Fang-Fang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30850675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40607-5