The extracellular association of the bacterium \"Candidatus Deianiraea vastatrix\" with the ciliate Paramecium suggests an alternative scenario for the evolution of Rickettsiales
M. Castelli, E. Sabaneyeva, O. Lanzoni, N. Lebedeva, A. M. Floriano, S. Gaiarsa, K. Benken, L. Modeo, C. Bandi, A. Potekhin, D. Sassera, G. Petroni
The paper describes a novel Rickettsiales bacterium associated with Paramecium that replicates extracellularly, suggesting an alternative evolutionary scenario for intracellularity in Rickettsiales.
bioRxiv · Nov 27, 2018Evolutionary Biology