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Impact of Facultative Bacteria on the Metabolic Function of an Obligate Insect-Bacterial Symbiosis.
mBio - 14 Jul 2020
Blow Frances, Ankrah Nana Y D, Clark Noah, Koo Imhoi, Allman Erik L, Liu Qing, Anitha Mallappa, Patterson Andrew D, Douglas Angela E
Abstract excerpt
Beneficial microorganisms associated with animals derive their nutritional requirements entirely from the animal host, but the impact of these microorganisms on host metabolism is largely unknown. The focus of this study was the experimentally tractable tripartite symbiosis between the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum, its obligate intracellular bacterial symbiont Buchnera, and the facultative bacterium Hamiltonella...
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