Leaffooted bugs enrich local soil with their horizontally acquired symbiont
Bibek Singh Parajuli, John Teodosio, Alison Ravenscraft
The paper tests if the bug-Caballeronia symbiosis is mutualistic by measuring how leaffooted bugs affect their symbiont's abundance in soil.
Frontiers in Microbiology · Jun 8, 2026Peer-reviewedMicrobiology