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Host and symbiont genetic determinants of nutritional phenotype in a natural population of the pea aphid.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2020
Chung Seung Ho, Parker Benjamin J, Blow Frances, Brisson Jennifer A, Douglas Angela E
Abstract excerpt
A defining feature of the nutritional ecology of plant sap-feeding insects is that the dietary deficit of essential amino acids (EAAs) in plant sap is supplemented by EAA-provisioning microbial symbionts in the insect. Here, we demonstrated substantial variation in the nutritional phenotype of 208 genotypes of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum collected from a natural population. Specifically, the genotypes...
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