Gene expression in gut symbiotic organ of stinkbug affected by extracellular bacterial symbiont.
The bean bug Riptortus pedestris possesses a specialized symbiotic organ in a posterior region of the midgut, where numerous crypts harbor extracellular betaproteobacterial symbionts of the genus Burkholderia. Second instar nymphs orally acquire the symbiont from the environment, and the symbiont in...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2013
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