Extracellular symbiont colonizes insect during embryo development
M. A. G. Porras, I. Pons, M. Garcia-Lozano, S. Jagdale, C. Emmerich, B. Weiss, H. Salem
This study identifies an extracellular symbiont, Stammera, that colonizes insect embryos before hatching, challenging the notion that extracellular microbes are only acquired post-hatching.
bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2023Evolutionary Biology