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CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE
卷 28, 期 -, 页码 50-58出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.05.002
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- Jena School of Microbial Communication (JSMC fellowship)
- German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) [KA2846/2-2, MA7282/1-1]
Symbiotic microbes can confer a range of benefits to social, sub-social, and gregarious insects that include contributions to nutrition, digestion, and defense. Transmission of beneficial symbionts to the next generation in these insects sometimes occurs transovarially as in many solitary insects, but primarily through social contact such as coprophagy in gregarious taxa, and trophallaxis in eusocial insects. While these behaviors benefit reliable transmission of multi-microbial assemblages, they may also come at the cost of inviting the spread of parasites and pathogens. Nonetheless, the overall benefit of social symbiont transmission may be one of several important factors that reinforce the evolution of social behaviors and insect eusociality.
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