The role of intracellular symbiotic bacteria in the amino acid nutrition of embryos from the black bean aphid, Aphis fabae

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 272-279

  Bermingham, J ^a   Wilkinson, T L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Aphididae; Aposymbiotic; Buchnera; Embryo culture; Hemiptera; Phenylalanine; Tryptophan; Valine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; APHID; BACTERIUM; DIET; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; NUTRITION; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS FABAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BUCHNERA (PROTEOBACTERIA); HEMIPTERA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 77649125370     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00953.x     Document Type: Article

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