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Travelling Bacteria: Phoresy

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Examples of phoretic links with bacteria observed in some invertebrate groups are reviewed. They include insects transporting bacteria, symbionts horizontal transmission and the insect-killing bacteria associated to entomopathogenic nematodes. Other bacterial phoresis are reviewed for slug parasites, grass galling nematodes and microbiovorous species, and anellids.

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Ciancio, A. (2016). Travelling Bacteria: Phoresy. In: Invertebrate Bacteriology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0884-3_6

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