Symbiotic Bacteria FISH (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Symbiotic Bacteria FISH

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Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH): The beetle owes its ability to digest plant tissue to tiny bacteria that live in special organs near its gut. The cross-section shows the symbiotic organs associated with the gut of the beetle. In these sac-like reservoirs, the symbiotic bacteria (green) are housed

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Benjamin Weiss, Mainz University, and Hassan Salem, Emory University

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