MicrobiologyPeerJPeer-reviewed
Outwitting planarians antibacterial defence mechanisms: Rickettsiales bacterial trans-infection from Paramecium multimicronucleatum to planarians
L. Modeo, A. Salvetti, L. Rossi…·G. Petroni
The paper demonstrates that a Rickettsia-like endosymbiont from a ciliate can be trans-infected into planarians, detected up to day 7 post-infection.
DOI 10.7717/peerj.8977