POSTER CHILD MOSAIC. “Mastotermes darwiniensis, a termite of northern Australia, may claim the title of “poster organism” for the chimeric individual. How can a worker termite be considered an individual when it is the hive that is the reproductive unit of the species, and the worker cannot even digest cellulose without its gut symbiont, Mixotricha paradoxa, which is itself a genetic composite of at least five other species?”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022