How multi-partner endosymbioses function

Nature Reviews Microbiology 14, 731 (2016). doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.151 Author: Angela E. Douglas Various animals are associated with specific endosymbiotic microorganisms that provide the host with essential nutrients or confer protection against natural enemies. Genomic analyses of the many endosymbioses that are found in plant sap-feeding hemipteran insects have revealed independent acquisitions — and occasional replacements — of
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