Cell Biology


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Two intracellular and cell type-specific bacterial symbionts in the placozoan Trichoplax H2

Citation
Gruber-Vodicka et al. (2019). Nature Microbiology 4 (9)
Names
“Grellia alia”
Abstract
AbstractPlacozoa is an enigmatic phylum of simple, microscopic, marine metazoans1,2. Although intracellular bacteria have been found in all members of this phylum, almost nothing is known about their identity, location and interactions with their host3–6. We used metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing of single host individuals, plus metaproteomic and imaging analyses, to show that the placozoan Trichoplax sp. H2 lives in symbiosis with two intracellular bacteria. One symbiont forms an un