Maternal provisioning of an obligate symbiont in a sponge
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DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10012
Abstract: Abstract The transmission of microbes from mother to offspring is an ancient, advantageous, and widespread feature of metazoan life history. Despite this, little is known about the quantitative strategies taken to maintain symbioses across generations.… read more here.
Keywords: maternal provisioning; obligate; maternal microbes; obligate symbiont ... See more keywords
Compartmentalized into Bacteriocytes but Highly Invasive: the Puzzling Case of the Co-Obligate Symbiont Serratia symbiotica in the Aphid Periphyllus lyropictus
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DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.00457-22
Abstract: Multipartner nutritional endosymbioses have evolved many times in insects. In Chaitophorinae aphids, the eroded metabolic capabilities of the ancient obligate symbiont B. aphidicola are complemented by those of more recently acquired symbionts. ABSTRACT Dependence on… read more here.
Keywords: insects; symbiont; symbiotica; obligate symbiont ... See more keywords