Symbiosis turns messy in 13-year cicadas

Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 21:00 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria that live in the guts of cicadas have split into many separate but interdependent species in a strange evolutionary phenomenon that leaves them reliant on a bloated genome, a new paper has found.

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