A Novel, Extremely Elongated, and Endocellular Bacterial Symbiont Supports Cuticle Formation of a Grain Pest Beetle

ABSTRACT The saw-toothed grain beetle, Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Silvanidae), is a cosmopolitan stored-product pest. Early studies on O. surinamensis in the 1930s described the presence of peculiar bacteriomes harboring endosymbiotic bacteria in the abdomen. Since then, however, the microbiological...

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Auteurs principaux: Bin Hirota, Genta Okude, Hisashi Anbutsu, Ryo Futahashi, Minoru Moriyama, Xian-Ying Meng, Naruo Nikoh, Ryuichi Koga, Takema Fukatsu
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Publié: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/3ac7125d92614e6f823b7938099f4256
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