- A
bacteriocyte (Gr**** for
bacteria cell), also
known as a mycetocyte, is a
specialized adipocyte found primarily in
certain insects such as aphids, tsetse...
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Aphids have
developed a
bilobed bacteriome containing sixty to
eighty bacteriocyte cells in
which the life
cycle of
Buchnera ****ociated with
aphids is confined...
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amount of
bacteriocytes, the size and
shape of symbionts. The
trophosome consisted anteriorly of a
small number of
bacteriocytes and
extensive mesenchyma...
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vertical transmission.
Intracellular symbionts can
migrate from the
bacteriocyte to the
ovaries and
become incorporated in germ cells. In plants, vertical...
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chemical defense. Some of
these relationships include endosymbionts within bacteriocyte cells, and
cyanobacteria or
microalgae found below the
pinacoderm cell...
- gram of
fresh weight.
Bacteria in the
trophosome are
retained inside bacteriocytes,
thereby having no
contact with the
external environment. Thus, they...
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provided to
aphids by
bacterial endosymbionts,
harboured in
special cells,
bacteriocytes.
These symbionts recycle glutamate, a
metabolic waste of
their host...
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selective vertical transmission of an
obligate insect symbiont at the
bacteriocyte-embryo interface".
Proceedings of the
National Academy of
Sciences of...
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Wigglesworthia (Wigglesworthia glossinidia),
which live
within the fly's
bacteriocytes. The
second symbiont is
Sodalis (Sodalis glossinidius) intercellularly...
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occupying specialized cell
compartments of sap-feeding
insects called bacteriocytes. A
majority of the
research done on "Ca. K. muelleri" has
detailed its...
