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Costs and benefits of a superinfection of facultative symbionts in aphids.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 May 2006

Oliver Kerry M, Moran Nancy A, Hunter Martha S

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Symbiotic associations between animals and inherited micro-organisms are widespread in nature. In many cases, hosts may be superinfected with multiple inherited symbionts. Acyrthosiphon pisum (the pea aphid) may harbour more than one facultative symbiont (called secondary symbionts) in addition to the obligate primary symbiont, Buchnera aphidicola. Previously we demonstrated that, in a controlled genetic...

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PMID: 16720402
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3436
PMCID: PMC1560284

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