American Society for Microbiology, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 15(84), 2018
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00660-18
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The discovery of two bacterial endosymbionts harbored in Stachylidium bicolor mycelium, Burkholderia contaminans and Sphingomonas leidyi , is described here. Production of tetrapeptides inside the mycelium is ensured by B. contaminans , and fungal sporulation is influenced by the endosymbionts. Here, we illustrate the bacterial endosymbiotic origin of secondary metabolites in an Ascomycota host.