Paramecium caudatum (Q488)

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Paramecium caudatum
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    in Legionella-containing vacuoles (LCVs). Legionella can experimentally infect Paramecium and inhibit acidification of LCVs, and such persistent intracellular Legionella have been suggested as an example of a 'natural reservoir' of Legionella (English)
    symbionts in two P. caudatum strains collected from Brazil and India have high 16S rRNA sequence identity (99.4%), hence both assigned to the same candidate species (English)
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