Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Center for Plant Cell Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521-0124, USA.
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Intracellular symbionts drive sex ratio in the whitefly by facilitating fertilization and provisioning of B vitamins.
...Published in The ISME Journal
Symbionts can regulate animal reproduction in multiple ways, but the underlying physiological and biochemical mechanisms remain largely unknown. The presence of multiple lineages of maternally inherited, intracellular symbionts (the primary and secondary symbionts) in terrestrial arthropods is widespread in nature. However, the biological, metaboli...