Open AccessThe Strange Case of the Armored Scale Insect and Its Bacteriome
Author(s) -
Benjamin B. Normark
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020043
Subject(s) - biology , insect , scale (ratio) , scale insect , evolutionary biology , ecology , zoology , hemiptera , physics , quantum mechanics
Armored scale insects are unusual in that a part of their bodies is genetically distinct from the rest. This extraordinary phenomenon challenges the notion of identity
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