How Insects Domesticate Bacteria to Live Symbiotically

Thursday, November 15, 2012 - 17:30 in Biology & Nature

Two years ago, a 71-year-old Indiana man impaled his hand on a branch after cutting down a dead crab apple tree, causing an infection that led University of Utah scientists to discover a new bacterium and solve a mystery about how bacteria came to live inside insects.

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