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How multi-partner endosymbioses function.
Nature reviews. Microbiology - 1 Dec 2016
Douglas Angela E
Abstract excerpt
Various animals are associated with specific endosymbiotic microorganisms that provide the host with essential nutrients or confer protection against natural enemies. Genomic analyses of the many endosymbioses that are found in plant sap-feeding hemipteran insects have revealed independent acquisitions - and occasional replacements - of endosymbionts, such that many of these endosymbioses involve two or more...
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