Outwitting planarians antibacterial defence mechanisms: Rickettsiales bacterial trans-infection from Paramecium multimicronucleatum to planarians
L. Modeo, A. Salvetti, L. Rossi, M. Castelli, F. Szokoli, S. Krenek, E. Sabaneyeva, G. Di Giuseppe, S. I. Fokin, F. Verni, G. Petroni
The paper demonstrates that a Rickettsia-like endosymbiont from a ciliate can be trans-infected into planarians, detected up to day 7 post-infection.
PeerJ · Apr 23, 2020Peer-reviewedMicrobiology