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Analyses of symbiotic bacterial communities in the plant pest <i>Bemisia tabaci</i> reveal high prevalence of <i>Candidatus</i> Hemipteriphilus asiaticus on the African continent
2021-10-08
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<h4> A bstract </h4> Microbial symbionts are widespread in insects and some of them have been associated to adaptive changes. Primary symbionts (P-symbionts) have a nutritional role that allows their hosts to feed on unbalanced diets (plant sap, wood, blood). Most of them have undergone genome reduction, but their genomes still retain genes involved in pathways that are necessary to synthesize the nutrients tha...
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- Literature Corpus work
- dba84eb6-65d4-5892-842c-2a0b33fb0df6
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.10.06.463217
