#phytoplasma — Public Fediverse posts
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How a #parasite plays matchmaker
https://elifesciences.org/digests/98992/how-a-parasite-plays-matchmaker paper: https://elifesciences.org/articles/98992"The parasitic bacterium #phytoplasma helps male and female #leafhoppers find each other so they can breed and increase the population of #insects that spread the #parasites to new hosts... Protein SAP54 attracted female leafhoppers to the leaves, but only when males were also present. SAP54 also suppressed the plant’s defences when males were on the leaves, making the plant more inviting to females."