Nutritional upgrading for omnivorous carpenter ants by the endosymbiont <it>Blochmannia</it>

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Carpenter ants (genus <it>Camponotus</it>) are considered to be omnivores. Nonetheless, the genome sequence of <it>Blochmannia floridanus</it>, the obligate intracellular endosymbiont of <it>Camponotus f...

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Main Authors: Mueller Martin J, Stoll Sascha, Berthold Kristina, Krischke Markus, Straka Josef, Feldhaar Heike, Gross Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-10-01
Series:BMC Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/5/48