Evolving aphids: one genome-one organism insects or holobionts?

Aphids have obligate mutualistic relationships with microorganisms that provide them with essential substances lacking in their diet, together with symbionts conferring them conditional adaptive advantages related, for instance, to the thermal tolerance and to the resistance to parasitoid wasps. Th...

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Main Authors: M Mandrioli, G C Manicardi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 2013-01-01
Series:Invertebrate Survival Journal
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Online Access:https://isj02.unimore.it/index.php/ISJ/article/view/278