Unique mechanism for symbiont acquisition in stink bugs, a group of notorious pest insect
Friday, October 30, 2015 - 07:20
in Biology & Nature
Yoshitomo Kikuchi and research collaborators have shown that stink bugs, known as agricultural pests, select only a specific symbiotic bacterium among various bacteria ingested with food by the narrow segment developing in their gastrointestinal tract, and take the bacterium into their symbiotic organ.