The role of bacterial symbionts in amino acid composition of black bean aphids

Insect Science

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 167-171

  Miao, Xue Xia ^a   Gan, Ming ^a   Ding, De Cheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Aphis craccivora; Aposymbiosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952735193     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2003.tb00380.x     Document Type: Article

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