Weidong Kong

Soil‐derived, gut‐dominant generalist bacteria shape the fitness of folivorous larvae

Whether Lepidoptera harbor a conserved core gut microbiome has long remained contentious. Through large‐scale microbiome profiling of folivorous larvae, their host plants, and associated soils across three climatically distinct regions of China, we identify two soil‐derived generalist bacteria, Ralstonia insidiosa and...