Sentences with phrase «eating mealybug»
With just 121 protein - coding genes, the diminutive Tremblaya princeps, a symbiotic bacterium that lives inside specialized cells of the sap - eating mealybug, has the smallest known genome of any cellular organism on the planet.
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Many sap - eating insects rely on helpful bacteria, or symbionts, to make amino acids, but none of them has the citrus mealybug's nested microbes.