Cargando...

The cockroach Blattella germanica obtains nitrogen from uric acid through a metabolic pathway shared with its bacterial endosymbiont

Uric acid stored in the fat body of cockroaches is a nitrogen reservoir mobilized in times of scarcity. The discovery of urease in Blattabacterium cuenoti, the primary endosymbiont of cockroaches, suggests that the endosymbiont may participate in cockroach nitrogen economy. However, bacterial urease...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Patiño-Navarrete, Rafael, Piulachs, Maria-Dolors, Belles, Xavier, Moya, Andrés, Latorre, Amparo, Peretó, Juli
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2014
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126632/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25079497
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0407
Etiquetas: Agregar Etiqueta
Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!