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Coevolution between a cockroach and its bacterial endosymbiont: a biogeographical perspective.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Feb 2001
Clark J W, Hossain S, Burnside C A, Kambhampati S
Abstract excerpt
Cryptocercus are subsocial, xylophagous cockroaches that live in temperate forests. Like other cockroaches, Cryptocercus harbour endosymbiotic bacteria in their fat bodies. Two species of Cryptocercus occur in the palaearctic, one each in eastern Russia and south-central China. In the USA, there are five species: one in the north-west and four in the south-east. Little is known about the relationship between the...
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