Evolution and Consequences of Nutrition-based Symbioses in Insects: More Than Food Stress

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Abstract

Many, if not all insects, have microbes associated with their digestive tract or with bacteriocytes, specialized structures that host the microbial partners. More detailed investigations of these associations, which focused on those involving aphids and their bacterial symbionts, have established that specific nutrients lacking from an insect’s diet can be complemented by microbial symbionts. Alleviation of nutritional stress has evolutionary consequences for both partners in these associations that may extend far beyond the nutritional level.
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationSymbioses And Stress: Joint Ventures In Biology
EditorsJ Seckbach, M Grube
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media
Pages265-268
Number of pages23
Volume17
ISBN (Electronic) 9789048194490
ISBN (Print)9789048194483
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

NameCellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology COLE
PublisherSpringer
Number5775
Volume17
ISSN (Print)2215-0048
ISSN (Electronic)1566-0400

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