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A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure—previously unknown in any organism—within Profftella, a symbiotic bacterium associated with a major global citrus pest. This ...

A multinational research team has discovered a mysterious tubular structure — previously unknown in any organism — within ...

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