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Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: a facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid.
Almost all aphids harbour an endosymbiotic bacterium, Buchnera aphidicola, in bacteriocytes. Buchnera synthesizes essential nutrients and supports growth and reproduction of the host. Over the long history of endosymbiosis, many essential genes have been lost from the Buchnera genome, resulting in d...
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2003
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| Accesso online: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691542/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14728775 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2537 |
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