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SUBMITTER: Valmalette JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3420219 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Valmalette Jean Christophe JC Dombrovsky Aviv A Brat Pierre P Mertz Christian C Capovilla Maria M Robichon Alain A
Scientific reports 20120816
A singular adaptive phenotype of a parthenogenetic insect species (Acyrthosiphon pisum) was selected in cold conditions and is characterized by a remarkable apparition of a greenish colour. The aphid pigments involve carotenoid genes well defined in chloroplasts and cyanobacteria and amazingly present in the aphid genome, likely by lateral transfer during evolution. The abundant carotenoid synthesis in aphids suggests strongly that a major and unknown physiological role is related to these compo ...[more]