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The microbiome of the Melitaea cinxia butterfly shows marked variation but is only little explained by the traits of the butterfly or its host plant

Understanding of the ecological factors that shape intraspecific variation of insect microbiota in natural populations is relatively poor. In Lepidopteran caterpillars, microbiota is assumed to be mainly composed of transient bacterial symbionts acquired from the host plant. We sampled Glanville fri...

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Autores principales: Minard, Guillaume, Tikhonov, Gleb, Ovaskainen, Otso, Saastamoinen, Marjo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6900084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31436012
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14786