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Metabolic Cost of a Nutritional Symbiont Manifests in Delayed Reproduction in a Grain Pest Beetle

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Animals engage in various symbioses. However, these interactions are not always beneficial for the host; they can also incur costs under certain circumstances. The bacterial symbiont supports, on the one hand, the cuticle formation of the sawtoothed grain beetle Oryzaephilus suriname...

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Autores principales: Engl, Tobias, Schmidt, Thorsten H. P., Kanyile, Sthandiwe Nomthandazo, Klebsch, Dagmar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7589553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33092035
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11100717