In the lab's latest paper, led by a visiting Ph.D. Student Mingjie Ma, we show that Bartonellaceae - bacteria best-known as insect-vectored mammalian pathogens - can infect planthoppers, and evolve in unexpected ways!

Piotr's Malaysia fieldwork

Check out this new paper from the lab, just published Open Access in Developmental Biology: the systematic description of the alternative routes and mechanisms of the transmission of planthopper symbionts.