Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects

Li, HJ; Young, SE; Poulsen, M; Currie, CR

Li, HJ (corresponding author), Ningbo Univ, State Key Lab Managing Biot & Chem Threats Qual, Key Lab Biotechnol Plant Protect, Minist Agr & Zhejiang Prov,Inst Plant Virol, Ningbo 315211, Peoples R China.; Li, HJ (corresponding author), Univ Wisconsin, Dept Bacteriol, Madison, WI 53706 USA.; Li, HJ (corresponding author), Univ Wisconsin, Wisconsin Energy Inst, Great Lakes Bioenergy Res Ctr, Dept Energy, Madison, WI 53726 USA.

ANNUAL REVIEW OF ENTOMOLOGY, VOL 66, 2021, 2021; 66 (): 297

Abstract

Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites and aphids has provided profound insights into the critica......

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