Buchnera

/bʊkˈnɛrə/ noun

A genus of bacteria that lives symbiotically inside plant-feeding insects like aphids, providing them with essential nutrients.

Named after Johann Buchner, a 19th-century German scientist, using the Latin binomial nomenclature for bacteria.

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