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Foliar-feeding insects acquire microbiomes from the soil rather than the host plant
Microbiomes of soils and plants are linked, but how this affects microbiomes of aboveground herbivorous insects is unknown. We first generated plant-conditioned soils in field plots, then reared leaf-feeding caterpillars on dandelion grown in these soils, and then assessed whether the microbiomes of...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6425034/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30890706 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09284-w |