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Ultrabithorax is essential for bacteriocyte development.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Jul 2015
Matsuura Yu, Kikuchi Yoshitomo, Miura Toru, Fukatsu Takema
Abstract excerpt
Symbiosis often entails the emergence of novel adaptive traits in organisms. Microbial symbionts are indispensable for diverse insects via provisioning of essential nutrients, wherein novel host cells and organs for harboring the microbes, called bacteriocytes and bacteriomes, have evolved repeatedly. Molecular and developmental mechanisms underpinning the emergence of novel symbiotic cells and organs comprise an...
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