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The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution

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Transfer of Immunity from Mother to Offspring Is Mediated via Egg-Yolk Protein Vitellogenin

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The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment

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RNA-sequencing analysis reveals abundant developmental stage-specific and immunity-related genes in the pollen beetleMeligethes aeneus

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The antifungal activity of fatty acids of all stages of Sarcophaga carnaria L. (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

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Unearthing carrion beetles' microbiome: characterization of bacterial and fungal hindgut communities across the Silphidae

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Gut homeostasis in a microbial world: insights from Drosophila melanogaster

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Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

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SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes

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Mechanisms and fitness effects of antibacterial defences in a carrion beetle

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Refining the Roots of the Beewolf-Streptomyces Symbiosis: Antennal Symbionts in the Rare Genus Philanthinus (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae)

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Inhibition of Microorganisms on a Carrion Breeding Resource: The Antimicrobial Peptide Activity of Burying Beetle (Coleoptera: Silphidae) Oral and Anal Secretions

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Identification of immunity-related genes in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides by suppression subtractive hybridization

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Secondary Metabolites Released by The Burying Beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides: Chemical Analyses and Possible Ecological Functions

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Comparative pathology of bacteria in the genus Providencia to a natural host, Drosophila melanogaster

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

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Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

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FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

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(2009) A. E. Douglas   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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(2009) Sheena C. Cotter et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new gammaproteobacterium isolated from Wohlfahrtia magnifica (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)

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High-throughput functional annotation and data mining with the Blast2GO suite

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Antimicrobial strategies in burying beetles breeding on carrion

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Bacterial taxa associated with the hematophagous mite Dermanyssus gallinae detected by 16S rRNA PCR amplification and TTGE fingerprinting

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