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Variations in the identity and complexity of endosymbiont combinations in whitefly hosts

Einat Zchori-Fein1, Tamar Lahav2, Shiri Freilich2

  • 1The Agricultural Research Organization, Newe Ya'ar Research Center, Institute of Plant Protection Ramat Yishay, Israel.

Frontiers in Microbiology
|July 30, 2014
PubMed

Keywords:
Bemisia tabacibacteriomefacultative endosymbiontsholobiont

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