F. Verni

Outwitting planarians antibacterial defence mechanisms: Rickettsiales bacterial trans-infection from Paramecium multimicronucleatum to planarians

The paper demonstrates that a Rickettsia-like endosymbiont from a ciliate can be trans-infected into planarians, detected up to day 7 post-infection.

Next generation taxonomy: integrating traditional species description with the holobiont concept and genomic approaches - The in-depth characterization of a novel Euplotes species as a case study

The paper introduces a new taxonomy framework integrating holobiont concepts and genomic analysis, exemplified by describing a novel Euplotes species and its symbiont.