CONTRARY FINDING. “Another is the recent discovery that the mealybug endosymbiotic β-proteobacterium Tremblaya harbors the γ-proteobacterial endosymbiont Moranella, on which it is absolutely dependent for complementation of many of its missing genes (it retains only 120!). This finding tells us that prokaryotes can acquire other prokaryotes as endosymbionts without first developing eukaryote-like phagotrophy.”
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/33/10278.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022