Nutritional upgrading for omnivorous carpenter ants by the endosymbiont Blochmannia
Abstract Background Carpenter ants (genus Camponotus) are considered to be omnivores.Nonetheless, the genome sequence of Blochmannia floridanus, the obligate intracellular endosymbiont of Camponotus floridanus, suggests a function in nutritional upgrading of host resources by the bacterium.Thus, the strongly reduced genome of the endosymbiont retai