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Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

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Quenching autofluorescence of insect tissues for in situ detection of endosymbionts

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Host-symbiont co-speciation and reductive genome evolution in gut symbiotic bacteria of acanthosomatid stinkbugs

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Arsenophonus, an emerging clade of intracellular symbionts with a broad host distribution

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Wolbachia as a bacteriocyte-associated nutritional mutualist

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Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

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Analysis of milk gland structure and function in Glossina morsitans: Milk protein production, symbiont populations and fecundity

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Long-Term Evolutionary Stability of Bacterial Endosymbiosis in Curculionoidea: Additional Evidence of Symbiont Replacement in the Dryophthoridae Family

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Wolbachia: master manipulators of invertebrate biology

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