| Chapter title |
Transovarial Transmission of Symbionts in Insects
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 3 |
| Book title |
Oocytes
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| Published in |
Results and problems in cell differentiation, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/978-3-319-60855-6_3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-960854-9, 978-3-31-960855-6
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| Authors |
Teresa Szklarzewicz, Anna Michalik, Szklarzewicz, Teresa, Michalik, Anna |
| Abstract |
Many insects, on account of their unbalanced diet, live in obligate symbiotic associations with microorganisms (bacteria or yeast-like symbionts), which provide them with substances missing in the food they consume. In the body of host insect, symbiotic microorganisms may occur intracellularly (e.g., in specialized cells of mesodermal origin termed bacteriocytes, in fat body cells, in midgut epithelium) or extracellularly (e.g., in hemolymph, in midgut lumen). As a rule, symbionts are vertically transmitted to the next generation. In most insects, symbiotic microorganisms are transferred from mother to offspring transovarially within female germ cells. The results of numerous ultrastructural and molecular studies on symbiotic systems in different groups of insects have shown that they have a large diversity of symbiotic microorganisms and different strategies of their transmission from one generation to the next. This chapter reviews the modes of transovarial transmission of symbionts between generations in insects. |
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