Colonizing an insect (IMAGE)

University of Maryland

Colonizing an insect

Caption

With small insects like flies, one fungal strain (tagged with red) takes the front half and the other (tagged with green) takes the back half. In large insects like caterpillars, they subdivide individual segments (the red individual takes the front half of each segment and the green individual takes the back half).

Credit

University of Maryland, Raymond St. Leger

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