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- who: . et al. from the University of the Ryukyus, Japan have published the article: Morphological adaptation for ectosymbiont maintenance and transmission during metamorphosis in beetles, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
- what: The authors focus on the impact of symbiont localization and transmission during metamorphosis on the symbiosis between two Lagria beetle species and their bacterial symbionts. Thereby, the authors demonstrate that symbiont loss in males already begins in the pupal stage, which is accompanied by morphological changes of the symbiotic organs during metamorphosis. The authors show that symbiont transmission from female pupae to adults probably occurs . . .
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