Balancing metabolism and reproduction

Elife. 2024 Apr 11:13:e97601. doi: 10.7554/eLife.97601.

Abstract

The bacterium responsible for a disease that infects citrus plants across Asia facilitates its own proliferation by increasing the fecundity of its host insect.

Keywords: Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus; Citrus huanglongbing; Diaphorina citri; ecology; metabolism; mutualism; reproduction.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Asia
  • Citrus* / microbiology
  • Hemiptera*
  • Plant Diseases / microbiology
  • Plants
  • Reproduction