The Placozoa are an enigmatic group of simple marine metazoans where all taxa harbor intracellular bacteria. Despite four decades of research, the bacterial identities, their location and their roles remain elusive. Here we show that the placozoan Trichoplax H2 is associated with two intracellular b...
Genome analyses of uncultured TG2/ZB3 bacteria in Margulisbacteria specifically attached to ectosymbiotic spirochetes of oxymonad protists in the termite gut