Dinoflagellate symbionts escape vomocytosis by host cell immune suppression
M. R. Jacobovitz, S. Rupp, P. A. Voss, S. G. Gornik, A. Guse
The paper identifies host immune suppression as a mechanism allowing dinoflagellate symbionts to avoid elimination by coral hosts through non-lytic expulsion rather than intracellular digestion.
bioRxiv · Dec 6, 2019Microbiology