The cockroach Blattella germanica obtains nitrogen from uric acid through a metabolic pathway shared with its bacterial endosymbiont

Biology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Patiño Navarrete, Rafael ^a   Piulachs, Maria Dolors ^b   Belles, Xavier ^b   Moya, Andrés ^a   Latorre, Amparo ^a   Peretó, Juli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Asparagine; Blattabacterium; Glutamine; Glycine; Nitrogen metabolism; Proline

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOCHEMISTRY; COCKROACH; DIET; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FAT RESERVE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; METABOLISM; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID; NITROGEN; PROTEIN INTAKE; URIC ACID;

ANIMAL; BACTEROIDETES; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLATTELLIDAE; FAT PAD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN INTAKE; SYMBIOSIS;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLATTELLIDAE; DIETARY PROTEINS; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, INSECT; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; SYMBIOSIS; URIC ACID;

EID: 84906070301     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0407     Document Type: Article

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