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Aug 2026
Global transcriptional rewiring provides recurrent evolutionary routes to insect–Escherichia coli mutualism
Microbial symbionts often evolve specialized functions that compensate for host nutritional deficiencies, yet the evolutionary routes by which such mutualisms arise remain poorly understood. Here, using an experimental symbiosis between the stinkbug Plautia stali and Escherichia coli, we investigated the early evolutio...
Yayun Wang, Ryuga Sugiyama, Yudai Nishide et al.
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