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Side-stepping secondary symbionts: widespread horizontal transfer across and beyond the Aphidoidea.
Molecular ecology - 1 Apr 2003
Russell J A, Latorre A, Sabater-Muñoz B, Moya A, Moran N A
Abstract excerpt
To elucidate the co-evolutionary relationships between phloem-feeding insects and their secondary, or facultative, bacterial symbionts, we explore the distributions of three such microbes--provisionally named the R-type (or PASS, or S-sym), T-type (or PABS), and U-type--across a number of aphid and psyllid hosts through the use of diagnostic molecular screening techniques and DNA sequencing. Although typically...
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