A dual-genome microarray for the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, and its obligate bacterial symbiont, Buchnera aphidicola
BACKGROUND:The best studied insect-symbiont system is that of aphids and their primary bacterial endosymbiont Buchnera aphidicola. Buchnera inhabits specialized host cells called bacteriocytes, provides nutrients to the aphid and has co-speciated with its aphid hosts for the past 150 million years....
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BioMed Central
2006
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610396 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610396 |