ESSENTIAL SYMBIONTS. “To ensure that offspring acquire these microbial partners, insects have evolved diverse mechanisms for vertical transmission of the symbionts, including ovarial transmission in aphids, egg smearing in anobiid beetles, coprophagy in termites, milk gland transmission in tsetse flies, and capsular transmission in plataspid stinkbugs.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022