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Diverse strategies for vertical symbiont transmission among subsocial stinkbugs.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Hosokawa Takahiro, Hironaka Mantaro, Inadomi Koichi, Mukai Hiromi, Nikoh Naruo, Fukatsu Takema
Abstract excerpt
Sociality may affect symbiosis and vice versa. Many plant-sucking stinkbugs harbor mutualistic bacterial symbionts in the midgut. In the superfamily Pentatomoidea, adult females excrete symbiont-containing materials from the anus, which their offspring ingest orally and establish vertical symbiont transmission. In many stinkbug families whose members are mostly non-social, females excrete symbiont-containing...
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