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Endosymbiont hijacking of acylcarnitines regulates insect vector fecundity by suppressing the viability of stored sperm

2025-09-02

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Competition between insects and their endosymbiotic bacteria for environmentally limited nutrients can compromise the fitness of both organisms. Tsetse flies, the vectors of pathogenic African trypanosomes, harbor a species and population-specific consortium of vertically transmitted endosymbiotic bacteria that range on the functional spectrum from mutualistic to parasitic. Tsetse’s indigenous microbiota can inclu...

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Literature Corpus work: d93d06a5-6316-556d-bd48-3662f1e6ee84
DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.02.673677

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