Evolutionary BiologyProceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPeer-reviewed
Phenotypic divergence is driven by mobile genetic elements in a heritable insect symbiont
Balig Panossian, Matthew R. Kolp, Taoping Wu…·Benjamin J. Parker
The paper shows that mobile genetic elements drive phenotypic divergence in the insect symbiont Regiella insecticola by mediating gene gains and losses that affect host defense.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2607226123