Santos-Garcia Diego

Coevolutionary diversification between hosts and their nutritional symbionts in phytophagous hemipterans.

Hemipteran insects feeding on plant sap rely on obligate microbial symbionts to compensate for the nutritional deficiencies of phloem and xylem sap. Because these bacteria are transmitted maternally over evolutionary timescales, Hemiptera have become a major model system for studying long-term host-microbe codiversific...