- A
bacteriocyte (Gr**** for
bacteria cell), also
known as a mycetocyte, is a
specialized adipocyte found primarily in
certain insects such as aphids, tsetse...
- the
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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Aphids have
developed a
bilobed bacteriome containing sixty to
eighty bacteriocyte cells in
which the life
cycle of
Buchnera ****ociated with
aphids is confined...
- ecosystems. Some of
these relationships include endosymbionts within bacteriocyte cells, and
cyanobacteria or
microalgae found below the
pinacoderm cell...
- own. In aphids, for example, the subpo****tion of a
single mother's
bacteriocyte is
transferred to the embryo.
Later on, in cellularization, the symbionts...
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endosymbiotic bacteria.
Bacteriomes contain specialized cells,
called bacteriocytes, that
provide nutrients and
shelter to the
bacteria while protecting...
- gram of
fresh weight.
Bacteria in the
trophosome are
retained inside bacteriocytes,
thereby having no
contact with the
external environment. Thus, they...
-
species of
symbiotic bacteria in the
genus Blochmannia that
inhabit bacteriocytes in
their midgut to
supplement their nitrogen-poor diets.
These bacteria...
-
provided to
aphids by
bacterial endosymbionts,
harboured in
special cells,
bacteriocytes.
These symbionts recycle glutamate, a
metabolic waste of
their host...
- transferred, live in the
hemolymph of the
insects (not
specialized bacteriocytes, see below), and are not obligate.
Among primary endosymbionts of insects...
