For the road: calibrated maternal investment in light of extracellular symbiont transmission
Faithful transmission of beneficial symbionts is critical for the persistence of mutualisms. Many insect groups rely on extracellular routes that require microbial symbionts to survive outside the host during transfer. However, given a prolonged aposymbiotic phase in offspring, how do mothers mitiga...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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NLM (Medline)
2022
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