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Aryan Rahimi-Midani1, Igor Iatsenko1
1Research group Genetics of host-microbe interactions, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
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Symbiotic gut bacteria have evolved mechanisms to selectively recognize and colonize an appropriate host. In a recent issue of Science, Gutiérrez-García et al. reported a colonization island that encodes sugar-binding adhesins used by Lactiplantibacillus plantarum to colonize its symbiotic niche in the foregut of its host, Drosophila melanogaster.
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