Can a Symbiont (Also) Be Food?

Affiliations

Kim L Hoang et al. Front Microbiol. 2019.

. 2019 Nov 7:10:2539.

doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02539. eCollection 2019.

¹ Department of Biology, O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States.

No abstract available

Keywords: beneficial microbes; food; symbiont acquisition; symbiont farming; symbiont ingestion.

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