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Mutualist-Provisioned Resources Impact Vector Competency

Many symbionts supplement their host’s diet with essential nutrients. However, whether these nutrients also enhance parasitism is unknown. In this study, we investigated whether folate (vitamin B(9)) production by the tsetse fly (Glossina spp.) essential mutualist, Wigglesworthia, aids auxotrophic A...

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Autores principales: Rio, Rita V. M., Jozwick, Anna K. S., Savage, Amy F., Sabet, Afsoon, Vigneron, Aurelien, Wu, Yineng, Aksoy, Serap, Weiss, Brian L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31164458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00018-19