Genome analyses of a placozoan rickettsial endosymbiont show a combination of mutualistic and parasitic traits
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54037-w
Abstract: Symbiotic relationships between eukaryotic hosts and bacteria range from parasitism to mutualism and may deeply influence both partners’ fitness. The presence of intracellular bacteria in the metazoan phylum Placozoa has been reported several times, but… read more here.
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