Vertical Transmission of a Pentatomid Caeca-Associated Symbiont

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The gut microbiota of insects - diversity in structure and function. (2013, background): “…viridula (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), was also found to house a specific symbiont in gut crypts and to acquire the symbiont environmentally each generation (Prado et al., 2006), suggesting that environmental transmission is not always incompatible with high specificity of a symbiotic relationship.”