Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Host Sweet Home (Unravelling the mechanisms that allow endosymbionts to make themselves at home within hosts, from transfer to transit.)

Endosymbiotic bacteria are usually not infectious, they have been thought to exclusively transfer vertically from the host mother to her offspring. However, recent evidences, including from my own research, indicate that the horizontal transfers (HT) of endosymbiotic bacterial...