The role of cathepsins as digestive proteases is highly significant in herbivorous heteropterans such as stink bugs because their diet contains complex macromolecules (as opposed to far the simpler diet of phloem feeding hemipterans like aphids and leafhoppers) which need to be broken down for absorption from the gut [ 19 ].
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Expansion of cytochrome P450 and cathepsin genes in the generalist herbivore brown marmorated stink bug.
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