Symbiont-mediated functions in insect hosts

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Su, Qi ^a   Zhou, Xiaomao ^a   Zhang, Youjun ^b  

^a HUNAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Adaption; Behavior; Defense; Endosymbiont; Multilevel selection; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA;

EID: 84879122975     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.23804     Document Type: Article

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