Changing partners in an obligate symbiosis: A facultative endosymbiont can compensate for loss of the essential endosymbiont Buchnera in an aphid

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1533, 2003, Pages 2543-2550

  Koga, Ryuichi ^a   Tsuchida, Tsutomu ^a,b   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buchnera; Endosymbiotic evolution; Host symbiont interactions; Pea aphid; Pea aphid secondary symbiont; Symbiont symbiont interactions

Indexed keywords

APHID; BACTERIUM; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

APHID; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BUCHNERA; BUCHNERA APHIDOCOLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHID SECONDARY SYMBIONTS; APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA APHIDICOLA; HEMIPTERA; HOMOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA; PISUM SATIVUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; UNCULTURED GAMMA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0347091990     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2537     Document Type: Article

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