The Mealybug Needs Its Nested Bacterial Helpers to Turn Plant Sap into Usable Nutrients (IMAGE)

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The Mealybug Needs Its Nested Bacterial Helpers to Turn Plant Sap into Usable Nutrients

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The mealybug needs its nested bacterial helpers to turn plant sap into usable nutrients.

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CREDIT: Husnik et al. (2013), <i>Cell</i> 153(7). Photo by Alex Wild (<a target="_blank"href="http://alexanderwild.com">http://alexanderwild.com</a>), courtesy of John McCutcheon.

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