Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Single mutation makes Escherichia coli an insect mutualist
R. Koga, M. Moriyama, N. Onodera-Tanifuji…·T. Fukatsu
The paper shows that a single mutation in E. coli enables it to become an insect mutualist by disrupting carbon catabolite repression.
DOI 10.1038/s41564-022-01179-9