An easy relationship between a beetle and its yeast symbiont

Lizard beetles farm yeast inside bamboo stems for their developing larvae to eat. Scientists have now found that, contrary to other insect-fungus relationships, the job of the yeast in this one does not involve digesting the complex sugars in bamboo’s woody tissues for its host.


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Source: ScienceDaily