Microbial symbionts are shared between ants and their associated beetles
C. Valdivia, J. A. Newton, S. O'Donnell, C. von Beeren, D. J. C. Kronauer, J. A. Russell, P. Lukasik
The paper compares the microbiota of army ants and their associated beetles, finding shared microbial genotypes across unrelated species.
bioRxiv · Dec 2, 2022Ecology