Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PHYTOPHONUS (From male-killers to plant pathogens: Investigation of cross-kingdom host-symbiont interactions in the Arsenophonus clade”)

Bacterial symbionts are ubiquitous and influential partners of all metazoan life forms, including humans. In insects, this is exemplified by a high number of species harbouring heritable bacterial symbionts which provide important services to their hosts (e.g. nutrients or...