The complexities of inferring symbiont function: Paraburkholderia symbiont dynamics in social amoeba populations and its impact on the amoeba microbiome
J. G. DuBose, M. S. Robeson, M. Hoogshagen, H. Olsen, T. S. Haselkorn
The paper investigates Paraburkholderia symbiont dynamics in D. discoideum populations, finding that only P. agricolaris persists and that the symbiont may dominate the microbiota rather than diversify it.
bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2021Evolutionary Biology