“Candidatus Trichorickettsia mobilis”, a Rickettsiales bacterium, can be transiently transferred from the unicellular eukaryote Paramecium to the planarian Dugesia japonica

Most of the microorganisms responsible for vector-borne diseases (VBD) have hematophagous arthropods as vector/reservoir. Recently, many new species of microorganisms phylogenetically related to agents of VBD were found in a variety of aquatic eukaryotic hosts; in particular, numerous new bacterial...

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Main Authors: Letizia Modeo, Alessandra Salvetti, Leonardo Rossi, Michele Castelli, Franziska Szokoli, Sascha Krenek, Valentina Serra, Elena Sabaneyeva, Graziano Di Giuseppe, Sergei I. Fokin, Franco Verni, Giulio Petroni
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Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020-04-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/8977.pdf