Wolbachia pipientis is an intracellular alphaproteobacterium that infects 40-60% of insect species and is well known for host reproductive manipulations. Although Wolbachia are primarily maternally tr
We performed a reciprocal transplant of eelgrass and examined the microbial community on the surfaces of leaves and roots of plants. This allowed us to determine effects of environment vs. host on mic
To test whether host animals regulate genetically their microbiota to enhance fitness, we transplanted microbiota between two genetically distinct genotypes of obligate parthenogenetic Daphnia cf. pul
