Sentences with phrase «bacterial symbiont metacomunities»

Wolbachia is a common maternally inherited bacterial symbiont able to induce crossing sterilities known as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI) in insects.

With the acquisition of a number of key genes and lipids from a bacterial symbiont, it would be possible for Loki - type cells to evolve a primitive membrane trafficking machinery and compartmentalization.»

The study is the first to show conclusively that a bacterial symbiont can protect aphids against parasites, says Richard Stouthamer, an ecologist at the University of California, Riverside.

Controlled experiments by the scientists from Jena implicate the bacterial symbionts in supplementing B vitamins to firebugs as an important feature of this association.

The broad protection offered by the antibiotic cocktail against a variety of mold fungi is probably related to the large number of substances produced by the bacterial symbionts.

Bacterial symbionts transition between plant pathogenicity and insect defensive mutualism...

My thesis focused on the genomic characterization of bacterial symbionts of honeybees and ants.

Not exact matches

An examination into the host's immune response to symbiont presence suggests that firebugs actively harvest their bacterial partners by lysing, or bursting open, the bacterial cells.