Vitellogenin Facilitates Associations between the Whitefly and a Bacteriocyte Symbiont

ABSTRACT Integration between animal reproduction and symbiont inheritance is fundamental in symbiosis biology, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are largely unknown. Vitellogenin (Vg) is critical for oogenesis, and it is also a pathogen pattern recognition molecule in some animals. Previous st...

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Main Authors: Xiang Sun, Bing-Qi Liu, Zhan-Bo Chen, Chu-Qiao Li, Xing-Ye Li, Ji-Sheng Hong, Jun-Bo Luan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-02-01
Series:mBio
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02990-22