The Strange Case of the Armored Scale Insect and Its Bacteriome
Open Access
- 16 March 2004
- journal article
- unsolved mystery
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Biology
- Vol. 2 (3) , e43
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020043
Abstract
Armored scale insects are unusual in that a part of their bodies is genetically distinct from the rest. This extraordinary phenomenon challenges the notion of identity.Keywords
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