Repeated replacement of an intrabacterial symbiont in the tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis
Filip Husnik, John P McCutcheon
This study examines the stability of a tripartite mealybug symbiosis by sequencing host-symbiont genomes across five species, revealing repeated replacement of innermost bacterial symbionts despite horizontal gene transfer stability.
bioRxiv · Mar 3, 2016Genomics