Unravelling the relationship between the tsetse fly and its obligate symbiont Wigglesworthia: transcriptomic and metabolomic landscapes reveal highly integrated physiological networks
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.0360
Abstract: Insects with restricted diets rely on obligate microbes to fulfil nutritional requirements essential for biological function. Tsetse flies, vectors of African trypanosome parasites, feed exclusively on vertebrate blood and harbour the obligate endosymbiont Wigglesworthia glossinidia.… read more here.
Keywords: symbiont; relationship tsetse; tsetse fly; unravelling relationship ... See more keywords