A Freeloader?: The Highly Eroded Yet Large Genome of the Serratia symbiotica symbiont of Cinara strobi
Alejandro Manzano-Marı́n, Armelle Cœur d’Acier, Anne‐Laure Clamens…·Emmanuelle Jousselin
The paper identifies a third bacterial symbiont in Cinara strobi aphids and shows that S. symbiotica has a highly eroded genome, suggesting ongoing symbiont replacement.