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SUBMITTER: Masson F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6738764 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Masson Florent F Vallier Agnès A Vigneron Aurélien A Balmand Séverine S Vincent-Monégat Carole C Zaidman-Rémy Anna A Heddi Abdelaziz A
Journal of innate immunity 20150123 3
Endosymbiosis is common in insects thriving in nutritionally unbalanced habitats. The cereal weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, houses Sodalis pierantonius, a Gram-negative intracellular symbiotic bacterium (endosymbiont), within a dedicated organ called a bacteriome. Recent data have shown that the bacteriome expresses certain immune genes that result in local symbiont tolerance and control. Here, we address the question of whether and how the bacteriome responds to insect infections involving exogenou ...[more]