Defensive symbionts in aphids and other insects

Defensive Mutualism in Microbial Symbiosis

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 129-147

  Oliver, Kerry M ^a   Moran, Nancy A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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