A bacteriocyte (Greek for bacteria cell), also known as a mycetocyte, is a specialized adipocyte found primarily in certain insect groups such as aphids...

the amount of bacteriocytes, the size and shape of symbionts. The trophosome consisted anteriorly of a small number of bacteriocytes and extensive mesenchyma...

vertical transmission.  Intracellular symbionts can migrate from the bacteriocyte to the ovaries and become incorporated in germ cells. Human infants acquire...

Aphids have developed a bilobed bacteriome containing sixty to eighty bacteriocyte cells in which the life cycle of Buchnera associated with aphids is confined...

selective vertical transmission of an obligate insect symbiont at the bacteriocyte-embryo interface". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of...

endosymbiotic bacteria. Bacteriomes contain specialized cells, called bacteriocytes, that provide nutrients and shelter to the bacteria while protecting...

chemical defense. Some of these relationships include endosymbionts within bacteriocyte cells, and cyanobacteria or microalgae found below the pinacoderm cell...

gram of fresh weight. Bacteria in the trophosome are retained inside bacteriocytes, thereby having no contact with the external environment. Thus, they...

provided to aphids by bacterial endosymbionts, harboured in special cells, bacteriocytes. These symbionts recycle glutamate, a metabolic waste of their host...

species of symbiotic bacteria in the genus Blochmannia that inhabit bacteriocytes in their midgut to supplement their nitrogen-poor diets. These bacteria...