Host’s demand for essential amino acids is compensated by an extracellular bacterial symbiont in a hemipteran insect model

• Published in: Frontiers in physiology Vol. 13; p. 1028409
• Main Authors: Moriyama, Minoru, Fukatsu, Takema
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 30.09.2022
• Subjects: essential amino acids; extracellular symbiosis; gut bacterial symbiont; nutritional mutualism; phloem sap; Physiology

Plant sap is a nutritionally unbalanced diet that constitutes a challenge for insects that feed exclusively on it. Sap-sucking hemipteran insects generally overcome this challenge by harboring beneficial microorganisms in their specialized symbiotic organ, either intracellularly or extracellularly....