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Heritable symbiosis: The advantages and perils of an evolutionary rabbit hole.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Aug 2015

Bennett Gordon M, Moran Nancy A

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Many eukaryotes have obligate associations with microorganisms that are transmitted directly between generations. A model for heritable symbiosis is the association of aphids, a clade of sap-feeding insects, and Buchnera aphidicola, a gammaproteobacterium that colonized an aphid ancestor 150 million years ago and persists in almost all 5,000 aphid species. Symbiont acquisition enables evolutionary and ecological...

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PMID: 25713367
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421388112
PMCID: PMC4547261

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