Interspecific symbiont transfection confers a novel ecological trait to the recipient insect

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-248

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

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Fitness effects; Megoura crassicauda; Plant adaptation; Regiella insecticola

Indexed keywords

APHID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; HERB; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LEGUME; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MOTH; REARING; SYMPATRY;

JAPAN;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; APHIDIDAE; CANDIDATUS REGIELLA INSECTICOLA; CRASSICAUDA; HEXAPODA; MEGOURA; MEGOURA VICIAE; TRIFOLIUM; VICIA;

EID: 79954478073     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0699     Document Type: Article

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