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Phenotypic divergence is driven by mobile genetic elements in a heritable insect symbiont.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Sept 2026

Panossian Balig, Kolp Matthew R, Wu Taoping, Tallapragada Keertana, Patel Vilas, Goldstein Elliott B, Oliver Kerry M, Henry Lee M, Parker Benjamin J

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Heritable microbes profoundly influence insect biology, yet the traits they confer often evolve rapidly and differ among closely related symbiont strains. Despite their importance, we lack a clear understanding of how novel traits arise in symbionts and how this diversity influences host ecology in nature. The aphid facultative symbiont Regiella insecticola is ideally suited to address this question due to strong...

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Animals
Symbiosis
Aphids
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
Phenotype
Plasmids

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Enterobacteriaceae

Phylogeny

Gene Transfer, Horizontal

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PMID: 42766741
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2607226123
PMCID: PMC13624595

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