The cockroach Blattella germanica obtains nitrogen from uric acid through a metabolic pathway shared with its bacterial endosymbiont

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2014-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0407PMID 25079497PMCID PMC4126632
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