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Obligate symbiont involved in pest status of host insect.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Aug 2007
Hosokawa Takahiro, Kikuchi Yoshitomo, Shimada Masakazu, Fukatsu Takema
Abstract excerpt
The origin of specific insect genotypes that enable efficient use of agricultural plants is an important subject not only in applied fields like pest control and management but also in basic disciplines like evolutionary biology. Conventionally, it has been presupposed that such pest-related ecological traits are attributed to genes encoded in the insect genomes. Here, however, we report that pest status of an...
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