How many symbionts are provided by mothers, acquired by offspring, and needed for successful vertical transmission in an obligate insect-bacterium mutualism?

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 5316-5325

  Hosokawa, Takahiro ^a   Kikuchi, Yoshitomo ^a,b   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Gut symbiotic bacterium; Maternal investment; Plataspid stinkbug; Resource allocation; Symbiont capsule; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HETEROPTERA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PUERARIA; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HETEROPTERA; MOTHERS; OVUM; PHENOTYPE; PUERARIA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MEGACOPTA PUNCTATISSIMA; PLATASPIDAE;

EID: 37249023681     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03592.x     Document Type: Article

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