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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2023-02-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02990-22 |