Phage loss and the breakdown of a defensive symbiosis in aphids.

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Published in Proc Biol Sci on January 22, 2013

Authors

S R Weldon1, M R Strand, K M Oliver

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. srweldon@uga.edu

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