Bacteriocyte plasticity in pea aphids facing amino acid stress or starvation during development

An important contributing factor to the evolutionary success of insects is nutritional association with microbial symbionts, which provide the host insects with nutrients lacking in their unbalanced diets. These symbionts are often compartmentalized in specialized cells of the host, the bacteriocyte...

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Main Authors: Mélanie Ribeiro Lopes, Karen Gaget, François Renoz, Gabrielle Duport, Séverine Balmand, Hubert Charles, Patrick Callaerts, Federica Calevro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2022.982920/full