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Symbiont transmission entails the risk of parasite infection

Like many animals, firebugs (Hemiptera, Pyrrhocoridae) rely on behavioural adaptations to successfully endow their offspring with microbial mutualists. To transmit the nutritionally beneficial Coriobacteriaceae symbionts, female firebugs smear egg surfaces with symbiont-containing faecal droplets th...

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Publicado en:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Salem, Hassan, Onchuru, Thomas O., Bauer, Eugen, Kaltenpoth, Martin
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2015
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4707701/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26673937
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0840
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