Heritable Microbial Endosymbionts in Insects: Insights from the Study of a Parasitic Wasp and its Cockroach Host
Endosymbiosis is a pervasive phenomenon that has been a powerful force in insect evolution. In many well studied insect-bacterial associations, the bacteria can serve as reproductive manipulators, nutritional mutualists or defenders of their hosts. Fungi are also frequently associated with insects,...
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The University of Arizona.
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195875 |