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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Main Authors: Wilson, Alex, Dunbar, Helen, Davis, Gregory, Hunter, Wayne, Stern, David, Moran, Nancy
Other Authors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
Language:en
Published: BioMed Central 2006
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610396
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