Wood-eating termites are one of the most numerous and ecologically relevant soil-dwelling insects on earth. They thrive on the abundant biopolymer lignocellulose, depending upon a phy-logenetically ...

Through repeated horizontal gene transfer and symbiotic relationships with bacteria, these insects have overcome significant ...

Bacteria that live inside parasitic wasps ... a project leader in insect symbiosis at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Biology in Germany, told Live Science. Engl was not involved in either ...