The fungus Rhizopus microsporus harbors a bacterial endosymbiont (Mycetohabitans
rhizoxinica) for the production of the antimitotic toxin rhizoxin. Although rhizoxin is the …

The rice seedling blight fungus Rhizopus microsporus and its endosymbiont Burkholderia
rhizoxinica form an unusual, highly specific alliance to produce the highly potent antimitotic …

Opportunistic infections by environmental fungi are a growing clinical problem, driven by an
increasing population of people with immunocompromising conditions. Spores of the …

The rice seedling blight fungus Rhizopus microsporus harbors endosymbiotic Burkholderia
sp. for the production of the virulence factor, the antimitotic agent rhizoxin. Since the toxin …

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A recent study has revealed a novel feature of the symbiosis between a bacterium and a
fungal pathogen. In addition to producing a pathogenic toxin, the endosymbiont of the rice …

Bacterial endosymbionts play essential roles for many organisms, and thus specialized
mechanisms have evolved during evolution that guarantee the persistence of the symbiosis …

Fungal-bacterial symbioses range from antagonisms to mutualisms and remain one of the
least understood interdomain interactions despite their ubiquity as well as ecological and …

As an endosymbiont of the ecologically and medically relevant fungus Rhizopus
microsporus, the toxin-producing bacterium Mycetohabitans rhizoxinica faces myriad …

The tight association of the pathogenic fungus Rhizopus microsporus and its toxin-
producing, bacterial endosymbionts (Mycetohabitans spp.) is distributed worldwide and has …