Bacterial Endosymbionts and Insect Hosts Practice “Supply-Side” Metabolism
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Bacterial Endosymbionts and Insect Hosts Practice “Supply-Side” Metabolism
Endosymbiotic bacteria within some insects supply their hosts with essential nutrients that enable those hosts to live in specialized environmental niches. In particular, blood-feeders such as bedbugs and tsetse flies, and plant-sap feeders such as pea aphids, citrus mealybugs, and cicadas rely heavily on their microbial symbiotic partners for B vitamins and amino acids that are otherwise lacki...
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عنوان ژورنال: Microbe Magazine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1558-7452,1558-7460
DOI: 10.1128/microbe.11.21.1