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Nutritional symbionts enhance structural defence against predation and fungal infection in a grain pest beetle

Many insects benefit from bacterial symbionts that provide essential nutrients and thereby extend the hosts’ adaptive potential and their ability to cope with challenging environments. However, the implications of nutritional symbioses for the hosts’ defence against natural enemies remain largely un...

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Autores principales: Kanyile, Sthandiwe Nomthandazo, Engl, Tobias, Kaltenpoth, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8778805/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34854911
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243593