Unique adaptations to a symbiotic lifestyle reveal novel targets for aphid insecticides

Biologists have potential new targets for aphid-specific insecticides. Aphids' diet of plants' sugary sap is limited in nitrogenous essential amino acids. To solve this problem, the aphid must use a bacterial symbiont, Buchnera, that lives inside special insect cells and supplements the animal's diet with the required nutrients.

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